Seasonal Wild Flowers

Fatsia

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.

Fatsia in winter

Flowers in winter

Individual flowerhead

Large palmate leaves

Fruits in early summer