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Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Schefflera heterophylla (Wall. ex G.Don) Harms (ARALIACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019

Description

Strangling evergreen shrub to 4 m tall. Leaves 60-120 cm long, 2-3x digitate; leaflets margin toothed on upper half. Flowers pale yellow-green to whitish or purplish in spreading clusters at end of twigs. Fruits 0.7 cm long, oblong, slightly 5-angled, ripening yellow to dark red.


Ecology

Evergreen forest 100-800 m altitude.

Distribution

S Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Java.