Polyscias filicifolia (C.Moore ex E.Fourn.) L.H.Bailey, commonly called fern-leaf aralia or angelica, is a columnar evergreen shrub that is native to Malaysia or the western Pacific, but has over time been introduced into a large number of tropical and subtropical areas around the world.
In temperate climates, it is commonly grown indoors as a houseplant for enjoyment of its handsome fern-like foliage. Once pinnate leaves are evergreen. Leaflet shape on the same plant can vary. Juvenile leaflets are fern-like, lanceolate and deeply cut with jagged edges. Mature leaflets are broad-ovate and sometimes entire. Pale yellow to white flowers in free-branching inflorescences bloom in summer. Fruit is a drupe. Plants rarely flower or fruit in cultivation outside the tropics.Genus name comes from the Greek words polys meaning many and skias meaning canopy like a sunshade because of the main umbel being divided into numerous lesser umbels.Specific epithet means with leaves resembling fern.
Genus name: 'Poly' means 'many' and 'scias' means 'shade' in Greek.
Polyscias filicifolia
Polyscias filicifolia is ca. 25 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 6 cm pot.
