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Fatsia

Fatsia
Photo: Orengi Harvey, CC BY-SA 4.0

Fatsia is a small genus of three evergreen shrubs in the ivy family, native to Korea, southern Japan and Taiwan. The best-known grown member is Fatsia japonica, prized for its large glossy palmate leaves and suitability for shade.

Family
Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil are dry, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, loamy garden soil or a peat-free potting mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; hardy to about -10 °C, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy

About

Fatsia is a small genus of three extant species of evergreen shrubs in the family Araliaceae native to Korea, southern Japan and Taiwan. They typically have stout, sparsely branched stems bearing spirally-arranged, large leathery, palmately lobed leaves 20–50 cm in width, on a petiole up to 50 cm long, and small creamy-white flowers in dense terminal compound umbels in late autumn or early winter, followed by small black fruit. The genus was formerly classified within a broader interpretation of the related genus Aralia.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fatsia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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