Common Name: schefflera
Family: Araliaceae
Common Synonyms: Brassaia actinophylla
USDA Hardiness Zone: 9b-11
Growth Habit: Tree
Origin: Tropical Asia, Australasia
FISC Category: 1
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen available vouchered in 1927
IFAS Assessment:
This species forms a large shrub or tree with large, evergreen, entire, palmately compound leaves. It can reach 12-15 m in height and grows rapidly. It can reach 12-15 m in height and grows rapidly.
Disturbed sites, often epiphytic when young. Central and southern peninsula
Grows terrestrially or as an epiphyte, invasive in hammocks, particularly wet, rocky sites, bird-dispersed fruits. Escaped from cultivation.
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IFAS. 2011. Integrated Management of Nonnative Plants in Natural Areas of Florida. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/WG/WG20900.pdf Accessed June 13 2017.
Wunderlin, Richard P., and Bruce F. Hansen. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. 3rd ed. Gainesville, FL: U of Florida, 2011.