Plant: Spider's Web - Fatsia
Fatsia · Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A coarse textured evergreen shrub for shade, with glossy dark green palmately lobed leaves up to 18 inches across that in this cultivar are speckled with white variegation near the lobe edges or across the whole blade. Creamy white flowers open in fall on terminal compound umbels that resemble drumsticks, followed by small green drupes turning black in winter. It wants deep to partial shade and moist, well drained soil at any pH, tolerates drought, heavy shade, salt and pollution, and works as a container plant, a shade garden accent or a foundation and mass planting.
- Full Shade
- Grows to 8 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 7b-10b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A coarse textured evergreen shrub for shade, with glossy dark green palmately lobed leaves up to 18 inches across that in this cultivar are speckled with white variegation near the lobe edges or across the whole blade. Creamy white flowers open in fall on terminal compound umbels that resemble drumsticks, followed by small green drupes turning black in winter. It wants deep to partial shade and moist, well drained soil at any pH, tolerates drought, heavy shade, salt and pollution, and works as a container plant, a shade garden accent or a foundation and mass planting.
- Flowers
- Creamy white flowers on a terminal, usually twice compound umbel about 1 to 1.25 inches across that resembles a drumstick.
- Foliage
- Alternate, simple, deeply palmately lobed leaves with 7 to 11 oblong elliptic serrate lobes, cordate, coriaceous and glossy dark green, up to 18 inches across; in this cultivar the leaves are speckled with white variegation near the edges or over the entire blade.
- Fruit
- Globose drupes about a quarter inch across, green turning black in winter.
- Bark & stems
- Stout, coarse stems with prominent leaf scars and smooth light brown bark.
- Light
- Deep Shade, Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- South Korea and Japan to the Nansei-shoto islands
