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Aralia excelsa

Aralia excelsa
Photo: Wen & Aguilar, Public domain
Family
Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
S. Mexico to Venezuela, Hispaniola
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Aralia excelsa is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America and parts of the Caribbean.

This species is a shrub or tree up to 20 meters tall with tripinnate leaves and umbels of flowers.

Other Aralia plants

California spikenard · Aralia castanopsicola · Chinese angelica tree · Udo · Aralia dasyphylla · Aralia dasyphylloides · Decaisne's Spikenard · Japanese angelica tree · Aralia elegans · Aralia frodiniana · Bristly sarsaparilla · Aralia hypoglauca

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aralia excelsa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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