Plant Profile

Dizygotheca elegantissima (False aralia)

False aralia is an evergreen small shrub with skinny leaves and a rounded to broadly columnar canopy.

Landscape Information
Botanical Description
Horticulture Management

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French Name: Faux aralia

Pronunciation: diz-zee-goe-THEEK-uh el-uh-gan-TISS-simuh
Plant type: Shrub
Origin: New Caledonia, Polynesia
Heat Zones: 1 to 15

Hardiness Zones: 10 to 13
Uses: Specimen, Indoor, Container
Size/Shape

Growth Rate: Moderate

Tree Shape: Upright

Canopy Symmetry: Irregular

Canopy Density: Open

Canopy Texture: Fine

Height at Maturity: 5 to 8 m

Spread at Maturity: 3 to 5 meters

Time to Ultimate Height: 5 to 10 Years

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Foliage

Leaf Arrangement : Spiral

Leaf Venation: Nearly Invisible

Leaf Persistance: Evergreen

Leaf Type: Palmately Compound

Leaf Blade: 20 - 30

Leaf Shape: Star

Leaf Margins: Serrulate

Leaf Texture: Coarse

Leaf Scent: No Fragance

Color(growing season): Green, Variegated
Flower
Trunk

Number of Trunks: Single Trunk

Trunk esthetic Values: Not Showy
Fruit

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Tolerance

Frost Tolerant: No

Heat Tolerance: Yes

Drought Tolerance: Yes

Salt Tolerance: Poor
Requirements

Soil Requirements: Loam, Sand

Soil Ph Requirements: Neutral, Alkaline

Water Requirements: Moderate

Light Requirements: Full, Part, Shade
Management

Invasive Potential: No

Pruning Requirements: Little needed, to develop a strong structure

Fruit/ Leaves/ Flowers litter: No

Surface Rooting: No

Life Span: Less than 25

Edible Parts: None

Plant Propagation: Cutting