• Image of Tetrapanax papyrifer taken at Juniper Level Botanic Gdn, NC by JLBG
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Tetrapanax papyrifer

Rice Paper Plant

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Item #: 4676

Zones: 7b to 10b

Dormancy: Winter

Height: 80" tall

Culture: Sun to Light Shade

Origin: China, Taiwan

Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)


This amazing tropical-looking favorite is grown as a dieback perennial north of Zone 8 and as a shrub from Zone 8 south. The fast-growing, thick, fuzzy, upright stems of Tetrapanax papyrifera are clothed with large, equally fuzzy, green castor bean-like leaves emerging from an underground rhizome. Rice paper plant will spread underground in good soils, so don't plant it near small defenseless plants.