Scientific Name: Schefflera arboricola
Common Name: dwarf umbrella plant
Family Name: Araliaceae
Origin:
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Stiffly upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Indoor plant
Exposure: Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Leathery, Palmate venation, Lustrous, Digitate (palmate), Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Entire
Flowers: Panicle, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Drupe, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Dark-red
Key ID Features:
Leaves palmately compound, with 7-11 mostly obovate to oblanceolate leaflets with acute tips, glossy medium green; leaflets are elliptical to oblanceolate in varying sizes with a smooth margin and acute to rounded tips; flowers insignificant.