Australian Umbrella Tree
অক্টোপাস গাছ
Heptapleurum actinophyllum (Endl.) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Araliaceae
Also called Octopus Tree, Umbrella tree, Australian Cabbage Tree, Octopus tree
Formerly Aralia longipes, Brassaia actinophylla, Brassaia singaporensis, Schefflera actinophylla
When it flowers
Flowers November to September in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. New Guinea to N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Red, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Großblättrige Schefflera
- Chinese (China)
- 大伞树, 澳洲鸭脚木
- Czech
- šeflera mnoholistá
- Spanish
- Árbol pulpo australiano
- Chinese
- 傘樹, 澳洲鴨腳木, 辐叶鹅掌柴
- Finnish
- jättiliuska-aralia
- Afrikaans
- Australiese Kiepersol
- Danish
- stråleparaplytræ
- Portuguese
- Árvore-Guarda-Chuva, Cheflera-Gigante
- Russian
- Гептаплеурум лучелистный
- Hebrew
- שפלרה עצית
- French
- arbre ombrelle
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Heptapleurum actinophyllum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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