Japanese name: シェフレラ レウカンタ Scientific name:Schefflera leucantha
[Overview]
An evergreen shrub.
It is somewhat epiphytic, and its tips climb other trees.
The leaves are alternate, with long leaf stalks, and palmately compound with 5–7 leaflets.
The leaflets are elliptic, 5–15 cm long and 1.5–6 cm wide, leathery and glossy, with long pointed tips.
The leaf margins are entire.
The flowers are borne in inflorescences at the branch tips and are cream-colored with 5 petals.
The fruit is ovoid and ripens orange-red.
[Cultivation]
Propagate by cuttings or layering.
Ideally, keep it at 10°C or higher over winter.
It prefers a sunny site with fertile, well-drained soil.
It also tolerates shade.
From spring to autumn, water thoroughly when the soil surface dries; in winter, keep it on the dry side.
From spring to autumn, apply slow-release fertilizer placed on the soil.
Scale insects can occur.
