Directory of Araliaceae Resources

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This family of trees and shrubs which are often prickly or climbing, comprises 55 genera and 700 species. The leaves are usually alternate and the flowers small, with parts in fives. Hedera helix, the European Ivy, has many garden cultivars and Fatsia japonica is much cultivated as a shrub for a shady spot. The roots of species of Panax are sources of the Chinese remedy, Ginseng.

Subcategories

• Aralia
• Arthrophyllum
• Brassaia
• Cheirodendron
• Dendropanax
• Eleutherococcus
• Fatsia
• Hedera
• Heptapleurum
• Meryta
• Munroidendron
• Oplopanax
• Oreopanax
• Panax
• Paratropia
• Polyscias
• Reynoldsia
• Schefflera
• Tetrapanax
• Tetraplasandra
• Trevesia

Resources in This Category

• Araliaceae

  http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/araliace.htm
  Botanical description of this family with technical drawings of several species.

• The Araliaceae

  http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/arali.htm
  Botanical characteristics of this family, with photographs and a brief description of a number of individual species.

 

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