Fatsia
Fatsia in winter
Flowers in winter
Individual flowerhead
Large palmate leaves
Fruits in early summer
Fatsia japonica
Araliaceae
Japanese Aralia
October to February.
The garden plant is grown throughout the country.
The naturalised escape is very thinly scattered, also throughout
the country, and most common in the Northwest.
See the BSBI distribution map for Fatsia
It is a neophyte, introduced in the 1830s and noted in the wild
in the 1980s, and thought to be increasing.
It is widely grown in gardens, amenity areas and parks.
The naturalised escape is found on waste ground and in relic
gardens and woodland.
Fatsia is either a bush or a single-stemmed tree.
The flowers are in a large candelabra-like flower-head, with
individual white flowers in smaller heads.
The white stamens are prominent.
The leaves are glossy and palmate.
The stems are pale grey.
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Fatsia in winter
Flowers in winter
Individual flowerhead
Large palmate leaves
Fruits in early summer
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