Tim..... Cistus finally contacted me.... Theres a min order price plus phyto certificates, shipping, and a charge for soil removal. Apparently they cannot ship Agave Victoria- Regina under Cities :scratch: not that I wanted one... as I have one.
I was not after Scheffleras but the Metapanax species. Can't find plants or seed this side of the pond 🙄
Regarding the Schefflera... I can't say that I know it but its a young plant and the leaves look similar to a plant I had. I'll have a look on my old laptop for a picture 😀

Tim..... Cistus finally contacted me.... Theres a min order price plus phyto certificates, shipping, and a charge for soil removal. Apparently they cannot ship Agave Victoria- Regina under Cities :scratch: not that I wanted one... as I have one.
I was not after Scheffleras but the Metapanax species. Can't find plants or seed this side of the pond 🙄
Regarding the Schefflera... I can't say that I know it but its a young plant and the leaves look similar to a plant I had. I'll have a look on my old laptop for a picture 😀

usually its the other way around. about half of my good plants came from the UK seems like almuree can get you anything and alot of it is hard to find here. weird how that works.

Hi Andy,

I did purchase both of Cistus's Metapanex plants a few months ago. The M. delaveyi looks real cool. The M. davidii has already flushed once for me nothing on delaveyi..............from the research I've done delaveyi seems quite hardy. Here's a photo of the Metapanex's and Schefflera's I received from Cistus.

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The Metapanex's are in the rear. All of them are at my office......I won't be going there today. When I get there tomorrow I can take a few close ups of the entire Metapanex's for you.

Metapanx delaveyi close up:
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Metapanex davidii close up:
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Schefflera delaveyi close up:
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Schefflera taiwaniania close up:
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Tim.... lovely plants...you've got the araliaceae bug without doubt 8) Looking at the leaf on the Schefflera Delavayii you probably have the oak leaf specimen, similar to mine.
I contacted Crug about Metapanax and they have a specimen but it doesn't set viable seed in the UK.

Mike.... Amulree is a popular Nursery in the UK. I lost out on their 50% Sale recently as their website crashed 🙄 My fault leaving it to the last minute.

Hi Andy,

the S. delaveyi looses the oak leaf look in age.........here's the same Schefflera from Cistus (Ron in Deleware has this one).

http://members6.boardhost.com/spanish2/msg/1359676965.html

Will pop in here to show mine:

I've heard this is: S.arboricola:

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Sorry but these have never been my favs.
The tall one is still alive...despite my best efforts. 😉 😆 😆

Barb

Barb, you have very nice "standard" arboricolas... 😆

Igor,
Seems I have a penchant for wanting to turn everything into TREES 😆

Keep yourself for the plants... Tree is just a kind of plant.You know... Tree is hard to remove if ...

Tim.... lovely plants...you've got the araliaceae bug without doubt 8) Looking at the leaf on the Schefflera Delavayii you probably have the oak leaf specimen, similar to mine.
I contacted Crug about Metapanax and they have a specimen but it doesn't set viable seed in the UK.

Mike.... Amulree is a popular Nursery in the UK. I lost out on their 50% Sale recently as their website crashed 🙄 My fault leaving it to the last minute.

That sale was so good I wished I could have gotten in on it. I think it was 50% off and free shipping as well wasn't it? I have contacted amulree, desert to jungle, all of them and none will ship to the states so I lose out on those. All my UK plants have come from people I have met over the net. Recently got a Begonia Lux. from the UK..I think thats why I want a taiwaniania so much. The leaves remind me of each other but the taiwaniania is def more hardy

Mike.... I have Begonia Luxurians too... a popular plant over here. It is also quite cool hardy easily surviving in my unheated internal shed, and yes it does look Schefflera like. Heres a mature specimen from Nick Macer at Pan Global Plants

Hi Andy,

that Begonia is really cool looking..................sure that's not a hybrid with Schefflera? 😆

Its not a popular one over here which is why it came from the UK. I got a fatsia spider web, fatsia varigate and the begonia lux all in the same package. there all doing well for such a long ride. My begonia will take a looong while to look like that mature one its only about 12 inchs tall right now. I'm still looking for a Fatsia annelise if you come across one over there and you could send it..

Hi Andy,

one of the Schefflera seeds germinated! Now to keep it alive. 😕

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Another view:

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I have tried to get a nursery to order me one of these but none seem to be able to..sad