A tree with large compound leaves with up to nine leaflets each. It likes damp and shade. Schefflera digitata.
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Patete, Schefflera digitata, Seven finger
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[Eagle, Audrey Lily], 1926?- :Schefflera digitata. Pate. Bridal Veil Falls, 11 March 19...
Date: 1955 - 1988 - 2003
From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]
Reference: A-437-240
Description: Shows leaves, flowers and seeds of the patete or seven-finger plant. Artist's list: Flowers male 11.3.25 [ie 1955] from Bridal Veil Falls nr Raglan. Flowers female from Otorohanga March. Fruit and juvenile leaf from Hakarimata Ra., Ngaruawahia. Details of fruit from Botanic Gardens Dunedin, May 2008. Coll. A Eagle. Appears on page 477 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - Gardens Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 261 x 211 mm.
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Post Office Savings Bank (N.Z.): Maori herbal medicines. MB 687 [1980s?]
Date: 1980 - 1985
From: New Zealand. Post Office Savings Bank: [Series of posters on Maori art and life. 1975-1985?].
Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-POSB-1980s-01
Description: Poster has an overall background showing Maori motifs. There is general text about Maori medicinal plants, and inset panels showing inllustrations of: Tataramoa (bush lawyer), Patete (Seven finger), Kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa), Kowhai, Koromiko, Kawakawa (Pepper tree), Kumerahou (Pomaderris kumeraho), Pohutukawa, Puriri (Vilex lucens), Kiwikiwi (Blechnum fluviatile). Text besides each explains the uses of the various parts of each plant. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 705 x 465 mm.
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Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771: [Untitled][Schefflera digitata (Araliaceae) - Plate 466]
Date: [ca 1894-1899]
From: British Museum (Natural History): Botanical plates from Banks' Florilegium and the second voyage of James Cook
By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771
Reference: B-026-466
Description: Branch identified as Seven finger (Schefflera digitata) showing the leaves, flowers and fruit Source of information - Identified as schefflera digitata in `New Zealand medicinal plants / Brooker et al [Reed books, 1987], p 94-95 Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - Looks like Schefflera digitata. J.R. et G. Forst. Char. Gen. Pl. 1776. S.N. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Copperplate engraving, 462 x 295 mm, on wove paper, 500 x 377 mm.