Scientific Name: Plerandra elegantissima
Common Name: false aralia
Family Name: Araliaceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Leathery, Heavily veined, Lustrous, Digitate (palmate), Linear, Serrate
Flowers: Umbel, Green-yellow
Fruit: Drupe, Black
Key ID Features:
Leaflets toothed, up to 8cm long and 1.5cm wide (potted plants only have juvenile leaves and are unlikely to flower).