Schefflera Species, Mallet Flower

On Dec 8, 2020, RosinaBloom from Waihi,
New Zealand (Zone 1) wrote:

The Spring/Summer flowers are inconspicuous with separate male and female reproductive parts on the same tree - monoecious.

On Jan 19, 2010, Vestia from San Francisco, CA wrote:

I find this plant much hardier than the more common S. actinophylla; as a house plant is is much less prone to pests, especially spidermites, and outdoors its more robust as a container plant. One of my faves for the tropical look.

I find it challenging to identify this plant from the regular Scheff. It has a thicker leaf, but this might not be obvious on shade-grown plants.

While in the trade this is almost always called Tupidanthus, it may also be found with the name S. pueckleri or T. pueckleri,
And aren't you glad that isn't your last name...

On Jun 11, 2003, qwk44stp from Carpinteria, CA wrote:

This plant has a beautiful, spreading habit of large palmately compound leaves and a tropical look originating from Queensland- the same location as its cousin, Schefflera
(Brassaia actinophylla)Araliaceae. Singularly fascinating
are the multi branching, stoutly stalked flower buds that
lose their caps, hence, calyptratus, and produce a ring of stamens circling a 1" fruiting body. The look of this array which can number more than twenty branches of from six to ten florets each, is impressive. Several such arrays appear on the tree from November to the next summer. The face of the "hammer" (Tupi...)shows a dot line reminiscent of that which one might suppose appears in Mitosis, at anaphase.
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