Heptapleurum Arboricola Hayata
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Heptapleurum Arboricola Hayata
Height
0.3meter
Heptapleurum Arboricola Hayata
| Family Name: | Araliaceae |
| Synonyms: | Schefflera arboricola (Hayata) Merr. |
| Common Name: | Dwarf Umbrella-Tree, Umbrella Shrub, Star Leaf, Hawaiian Elf Schefflera, Hawaiian Elf |
The Dwarf Umbrella-Tree (Heptapleurum arboricola) has attractive, glossy palmate leaves comprising 7 to 9 oval leaflets arranged in a whorl, resembling the spokes of an umbrella. In its native range of Hainan and Taiwan, this evergreen shrub is found growing along stream banks, wet forests and sometimes epiphytic on trees. It is commonly planted in Singapore as a hedge and screening plant and does best in semi-shade on well-drained, moist soil.
Description and Ethnobotany
| Growth Form | Evergreen shrub, sometimes climber, able to grow up to 4 m tall. |
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| Foliage | Leaves are subleathery, palmately compound, each leaf containing 7 - 9(or 10) leaflets, obovate-oblong to oblong or elliptic in shape and measuring 6 - 10(-12) cm long and 1.5 - 3.5(-4.5) cm wide. Leaf blade has glabrous surfaces on both sides, base cuneate, apex obtuse or abruptly acute, margin entire. |
| Flowers | Red tiny flowers borne in a panicle of umbels, located on the stem terminal. |
| Fruit | Fruit is an orange drupe which becomes black upon maturity. Fruit is subglobose, about 5 mm in diameter, 5- or 6-ribbed when dry. |
| Habitat | In its native habitat, it is found growing along the stream banks and wet forests, sometimes epiphytic, at an altitude of below 900 m. |
| Etymology | The specific epithet in the second part of the scientific name 'arboricola' means 'living on trees'. |
Full Sun
Semi Shade
Moderate Water
Ornamental Leaves
Drought Tolerant
Shrub