Aralia is a genus of the plant family Araliaceae, consisting of about 40 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, and some rhizomatous perennials. They are typically mountain woodland plants originating in Asia and the Americas. See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Genera Aralia Fatsia Hedera - Ivy Panax - Ginseng Reynoldsia Schefflera and others, see text of article The Araliaceae is known as the Ivy or Ginseng family. ... Deciduous forest after leaf fall Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... This article is about plant types. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... A willow shrub A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... In botany, a rhizome is a horizontal, usually underground stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ... A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... The Americas is an alternative name in the English language for the continent of America, to distinguish it from the United States of America, which is often just called America. ...

Aralia species have large bipinnate leaves, sometimes covered with bristles, the flowers are whitish or greenish occurring in terminal panicles, and the spherical dark fruits are popular with birds. A pinnate fern frond (Blechnum appendiculatum). ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... White-fruited Rowan (Sorbus glabrescens) corymb; note the branched structure A panicle is a compound raceme; a branched, indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers (and fruit) attached along the secondary branches (in another words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes). ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... Orders Many - see section below. ...

Species

• Aralia cachemirica
• Aralia californica California Aralia or Elk-clover
• Aralia continentalis
• Aralia cordata
• Aralia elata Japanese Angelica-tree
• Aralia hispida
• Aralia nudicaulis
• Aralia racemosa American Spikenard
• Aralia schmidtii
• Aralia spinosa Hercules' Club
• Aralia stipulata
• Aralia tomentella
• Aralia warmingiana

Aralia spinosa

Some species formerly classified as Aralia are now treated in the genera Dendropanax, Fatsia, Oreopanax, Polyscias, Schefflera, and Tetrapanax. Binomial name Aralia elata Seem. ... The Hercules Club (Aralia spinosa) is a species in the genus Aralia, family Araliaceae, native to southeastern North America. ... Download high resolution version (768x735, 97 KB)Clump of Aralia shrubs. ... Download high resolution version (768x735, 97 KB)Clump of Aralia shrubs. ... Species Fatsia japonica Fatsia oligocarpella Fatsia polycarpa Fatsia is a small genus of three species of evergreen shrubs native to southern Japan and Taiwan. ...