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Prefers a good deep loam and a position in semi-shade but it also succeeds in a sunny position. Requires a sheltered position. Plants are hardier when grown on poorer soils. Prefers an acid soil. Dormant plants are hardy to at least -15°c. The young growth in spring, even on mature plants, is frost-tender and so it is best to grow the plants in a position sheltered from the early morning sun[K]. A very ornamental species, there are a number of named varieties. It is usually a single stemmed shrub, spreading by means of suckers. This species is closely allied to A. chinensis. In Japan Aralia elata is a pioneering plant that often grows where forests have been cleared. In open sunny areas with adequate soil moisture it grows rapidly. The plant is heat tolerant in zones 9 through 1. (Plant Hardiness Zones show how well plants withstand cold winter temperatures. Plant Heat Zones show when plants would start suffering from the heat. The Plant Heat Zone map is based on the number of "heat days" experienced in a given area where the temperature climbs to over 86 degrees F (30°C). At this temperature, many plants begin to suffer physiological damage. Heat Zones range from 1 (no heat days) to 12 (210 or more heat days). For example Heat Zone. 11-1 indicates that the plant is heat tolerant in zones 11 through 1.) For polyculture design as well as the above-ground architecture (form - tree, shrub etc. and size shown above) information on the habit and root pattern is also useful and given here if available. A clumping plant, forming a colony from shoots away from the crown but with a limited spread [1-2]. The root pattern is suckering with new plants from underground runners away from the plant [1-2].

Edible Parts: Leaves Shoots Edible Uses: Young shoots - cooked. They can also be blanched and used in salads. The young shoots of Aralia elata are a popular wild food in Japan where the tree is known as Taranoki and the shoots as Taranome. In Korea the shoots are called dureup.

Landscape Uses: Specimen. Special Features: Not North American native, Blooms are very showy. attracts wildlife. Nectary - Shelter [1-2].

Heimisch: Amur, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Germany [I]; Russian Far East (Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin); China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, NE-Hebei, Shandong); North Korea; South Korea; Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu); Canada [I] (Ontario [I]); USA [I] (Connecticut [I], Illinois [I], Michigan [I], New Hampshire [I], New York [I], Ohio [I], Oregon [I], Pennsylvania [I], Washington State [I], Wisconsin [I]), Global, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Manchuria, NO, Nansei-shoto, North America, Primorye, Sakhalin, Taiwan, Vermont-US, conterminous 48 United States Eingeführt: AT, Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, British Columbia, Brussels-Capital Region, CA, Connecticut, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Flemish Region, France, GB, Germany, Great Britain, IE, Illinois, Indiana, Ireland, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, NO, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, SE, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Walloon Region, Wisconsin