(FAT-si-uh juh-PON-i-cuh)
Japanese Aralia
This plant comes from Korea and Japan. A tropical-looking shrub with long-stalked, big, glossy dark green, deeply lobed, fanlike leaves that get up to 16in wide.
Grows in nearly all soils exceept soggy ones. Grows 5-8ft tall and wide. This sparsely branched plant gets many roundish clusters of small, creamy white flowers in the fall and winter, followed by clusters of small, shiny black fruit.
USDA zones 8-10
Sunset Western zones 4-9, 14-24; H1, H2