What Is This Houseplant?

cybergrannie
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March 30, 20180 found this helpful

The name on the plant is "half" right. It is in the Aralia family.

• Your plant looks healthy so you must be "treating" it correctly.
• It appears to be False Aralia but not the most common type so you might have to check a lot of sites to find this one.
• You can check the answers on this ThriftyFun posting.
• www.thriftyfun.com/Identifying-a-Houseplant-99.html

poehere
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March 31, 20180 found this helpful

The store has marked you plant correctly, but the name they have used is the one that is less common to the Aralia family of plants. I do believe that a lot of people will call this a False Aralia plant. You might not find the exact photo of this plant online.

Judy
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March 30, 20180 found this helpful

I saw a plant similar to yours under the name false aralia.

sueben04

January 6, 20190 found this helpful

I have the same plant and i have no idea what it called. Mine is just growing tall. I bought it at Lowe's or Home Depot 2 years ago and it's about 18 inches tall.

Ginger Hubner Z.

August 24, 20190 found this helpful

So-called "false aralia" (dizygotheca elegantissima) have purple-ish leaves, but try googling Plerandra elegantissima and you may find one that matches what you have. Part of the problem is that horticulturalists cannot always agree on the scientific name for a plant, so they get labelled differently.