Tropical Zone Gardening: ID please....Trepanax?

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Author Content AlohaHoya Keaau, HI (Zone 11) July 16, 2009 02:20 PM Post #6827186 Great leaves...can anyone help with the name? Click the image for an enlarged view. Metrosideros Keaau, HI July 16, 2009 07:34 PM Post #6828349 Hi Carol, I saw that plant at the Garden Exchange labeled as a Schefflera. I can't find it in any book though. Islandshari Kwajalein Marshall Islands (Zone 11) July 16, 2009 10:19 PM Post #6829043 Howdy girlfriend! Could it be schefflera actinophylla? http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/44639/ Yokwe, Shari Metrosideros Keaau, HI July 16, 2009 10:23 PM Post #6829056 Thanks Shari! Never thought it might be a cultivar of the common species. AlohaHoya Keaau, HI (Zone 11) July 17, 2009 01:41 AM Post #6829647 Hmmmm. If you look at the petioles (which connects the leaf to the stem?)...mine are quite long which the Sheff. isn't. Do you think that matters? Metrosideros Keaau, HI July 17, 2009 01:59 AM Post #6829667 The leaf petioles in Schefflera actinophylla are said to reach 32 inches long. tropicbreeze noonamah Australia July 17, 2009 08:17 AM Post #6830022 That's a cultivar of the ordinary Umbrella Tree, Schefflera actinophylla? I saw something like that for sale one time but never took any notice of the name. Certainly a lot different to what I'm used to. andymaycen Vista, CA July 17, 2009 11:01 AM Post #6830598 Hi, It is Schefflera actinophylla 'Nova'... Andy tropicbreeze noonamah Australia July 17, 2009 07:36 PM Post #6832419 "Nova" to me for sure. The ordinary one is native here, also to Queensland and Papua New Guinea. In PNG I saw some growing as epiphytes. Or at least on other trees like ficus does. AlohaHoya Keaau, HI (Zone 11) July 17, 2009 10:26 PM Post #6833069 Sheffy's'll do that...we have a HUGE Dward Shef that has 'strangled' two Ohia (tall trees) and the limbs are very 'viney'...Also the 'Octopus Tree'...that Brassaica (sp?) sprouts everywhere and eventually strangles the host. Better build a hurricane fense around that baby and get some Pit Bulls!!!

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