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Fatsia japonica
Also called Fatsia, Japanese Aralia, Japanese Fatsia, Fatsi, Glossy Leaf Paperplant, Glossy Leaf Paper Plant
In Singapore: Fatsi, Japanese Fatsia, Glossy-leaved Paper Plant, Japanese Aralia (Grown in Singapore)
Fatsia japonica is an evergreen shrub from southern Japan and Korea with large, glossy, palmately lobed leaves. It grows best in shade or part shade and needs shelter from hard frost.
Fatsia japonica, also fatsi, paperplant, false castor oil plant, or Japanese aralia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to southern Japan and southern Korea.
It is commonly grown as an ornamental plant in warm temperate regions where winters do not fall below about −15 °C (5 °F). F. japonica thrives in semi-shade to full-shade and is winter hardy in USDA Zones 8–10. It can be grown as an indoor plant and has been shown to effectively remove gaseous formaldehyde from indoor air.
This plant and its cultivar F. japonica 'Variegata' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
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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.
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.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
