Rogers Trees and Shrubs - Schefflera elegantissima Tree


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Schefflera elegantissima. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Dizygotheca elegantissima, False Aralia, Petit Boux Caledonien

Ref No: 10948
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tree/shrub type: Broad leaved trees and shrubs

foliage: Evergreen

size: Average shrubs

leaf type: Composite leaves

types of fruit: Trees and shrubs with decorative fruit or berries

flowering period: Autumn

leaf colour: Leaves green

Schefflera elegantissima (Veitch ex Mast.) Lowry & Frodin, syn. Dizygotheca elegantissima Veitch ex Mast. False Aralia, Petit Boux Caledonien. A many-stemmed shrub or small tree with 7–11 narrow, jagged-toothed leaflets and a compound umbellate inflorescence, native of New Caledonia, growing in tropical forest, often as an epiphyte or on rocks, flowering in autumn. Tree to 15m or more. Leaflets of juvenile plants to 23cm long, 3cm wide, linear-oblong, dark green with a white midrib; mature leaflets oblong, 25cm long, 8cm wide. Commonly grown as a houseplant. Min. 5°C.
Schefflera elegantissima in Durango, Mexico. Z10.

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