Fatsia (Araliaceae) BSWJ12499

polycarpa deeply cut

A selected form of this architectural woodland shrub to 3.5m tall that we found growing at high altitude on Dasyueshan in the west of northern Taiwan in 2007. Where it grew under tall forest trees forming well-branched arching shrubs bearing exceptionally deeply mostly 11-narrowly lobed dark matt-green palmate leaves. Bearing large terminal inflorescences consisting of long spikes, heavily covered in brown tomentum, of rounded umbels of creamy-white flowers eventually followed by purplish fruit. Easily grown in part to full shade in any good fertile soil, out of freezing winds.