Araliaceae

The Araliaceae have become a major new component of the sheltered woodland garden. Many new species are growing in the garden at Tregrehan for the first time in the UK. Genera include;

Fatsia polycarpa; Needham Form

  • Brassaiopsis from Arunachal Pradesh in India

  • Dendropanax from Mexico

  • Gamblea from the Himalaya

  • Metapanax from China

  • Oreopanax from Mexico

  • Pentapanax from China

  • Pseudopanax from New Zealand

  • Schefflera from Vietnam

  • Sinopanax from Taiwan

  • Trevesia from Vietnam

Often reaching 10 metres or more in warm evergreen forest the Araliads are often confusing to identify as they continually change their leaf shape until fully mature and flowering.

With many trees and shrubs in this type of vegetation having a simple leaf structure they provide a welcome distraction with often bizarre leaflet shapes on the tips of huge petioles up to a metre or more in size. 

Schefflera treveesioides

Schefflera taiwaniana, one of the hardiest species

Oreopanax echinops