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Schefflera / ˈ ʃ ɛ f l ər ə / [1] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with 13 species native to New Zealand and some Pacific islands. [2]The genus is named in honor of Johann Peter Ernst von Scheffler [], physician and botanist of Gdańsk, and later of Warsaw, who contributed plants to Gottfried Reyger [] for Reyger's book, Tentamen Florae Gedanensis.
Fruits. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 8–9 m tall, free-standing, or clinging to the trunks of other trees as an epiphyte.The leaves are palmately compound, with 7–9 leaflets, the leaflets 9–20 cm long and 4–10 cm broad (though often smaller in cultivation) with a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, and an obtuse or acute apex, sometimes emarginate.
Schefflera pueckleri (K.Koch) Frodin (1989) Sciodaphyllum pulchellum Griff. (1843), nom. nud. ... It has palmate leaves with 7-12 leaflets growing in a whorled ...
A sundew with a leaf bent around a fly trapped by mucilage. Mucilage is a thick gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms.These microorganisms include protists which use it for their locomotion, with the direction of their movement always opposite to that of the secretion of mucilage. [1]
Schefflera faguetii Baill. Plerandra elegantissima (formerly called Schefflera elegantissima and Dizygotheca elegantissima ), the false aralia , is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to New Caledonia .
Honeydew drops on leaves Bald-faced hornet sips honeydew from a Disholcaspis quercusmamma gall covered by sooty mold Magicicada cassini "cicada rain" slow motion. Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids, some scale insects, and many other true bugs and some other insects as they feed on plant sap.
Heptapleurum actinophyllum (formerly Schefflera actinophylla) is a tree in the family Araliaceae. [1] [2] It is native to tropical rainforests and gallery forests in northern and northeastern Queensland coasts and the Northern Territory of Australia, as well as New Guinea and Java.
Schefflera digitata, the patē, seven-finger, or umbrella tree, [1] is a tree endemic to New Zealand belonging to the family Araliaceae. Māori names include: patē , patatē , patete , and kōtētē . [ 2 ]