Other common names Chinese rice-paper plant

Family Araliaceae

Genus Tetrapanax are suckering, evergreen shrubs or small trees, with large, palmately-lobed leaves. The flowers are produced in large, woolly sprays, attractive to bees, followed by black fruit

Details  is a large shrub or small tree, producing upright stems topped by huge, deeply lobed leaves, up to 1m across. If kept frost-free these are evergreen; with mild frosts the plant is deciduous, and with harder frost will die to ground level then reshoot from the roots. Creamy pompoms of flowers are produced in large sprays in autumn, followed by black fruit. Can be invasive by suckering