order: apiales
family: araliaceae
genus: schefflera
species: elegantissima
This plant has got gorgeous foliage; and people like to compare it to a cannabis. This particular schefflera species doesn't ramify well. Therefore it's common to find them as group plantings. This group consists of 6 plants. Care instructions: bright location, room temperature and consistent soil moisture. Leave it where it is and do not move it around. That's what I read and what I've been doing since. However, since the day I brought the plant home in March 2012, nothing much has changed. In the summer some new leaves appeared at the top but dried up before they could grow big, either by chance or by design (I have no clue what went wrong). With that, the growing tips were also gone. For a while the plants seemed to want to branch out on many epicormic buds along the stems. Even this was short-lived. The plants decided to abort this action. Soon the autumn came and the winter approached. The daytime got shorter and shorter. Finally the plants have come to their senses and realised, it's also a good idea to grow a bit from time to time, to keep their owner happy. There are finally 2 to 3 decent-sized leaves on the new meristems that extended from the topmost axillary bud (the so-called "pseudoterminal buds") of each plant, except the smallest plant, who decided not to continue with the life journey. So all in all, I'm quite happy now.
There is otherwise little discussion on this plant on the www, except a bunch of people complaining how difficult it is to keep this plant and a few others saying "oh! that's such an easy plant to grow. An absolute beginner!" . So... I'll see what I can report later.
family: araliaceae
genus: schefflera
species: elegantissima
This plant has got gorgeous foliage; and people like to compare it to a cannabis. This particular schefflera species doesn't ramify well. Therefore it's common to find them as group plantings. This group consists of 6 plants. Care instructions: bright location, room temperature and consistent soil moisture. Leave it where it is and do not move it around. That's what I read and what I've been doing since. However, since the day I brought the plant home in March 2012, nothing much has changed. In the summer some new leaves appeared at the top but dried up before they could grow big, either by chance or by design (I have no clue what went wrong). With that, the growing tips were also gone. For a while the plants seemed to want to branch out on many epicormic buds along the stems. Even this was short-lived. The plants decided to abort this action. Soon the autumn came and the winter approached. The daytime got shorter and shorter. Finally the plants have come to their senses and realised, it's also a good idea to grow a bit from time to time, to keep their owner happy. There are finally 2 to 3 decent-sized leaves on the new meristems that extended from the topmost axillary bud (the so-called "pseudoterminal buds") of each plant, except the smallest plant, who decided not to continue with the life journey. So all in all, I'm quite happy now.
There is otherwise little discussion on this plant on the www, except a bunch of people complaining how difficult it is to keep this plant and a few others saying "oh! that's such an easy plant to grow. An absolute beginner!" . So... I'll see what I can report later.
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