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Eleutherococcus sieboldianus; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-06-06

Eleutherococcus sieboldianus (Makino) Koidz.

Five-leaved aralia; Five-fingered Aralia; Five-leaf Aralia; Ginseng

Araliaceae · China Southeast

No habitat climate
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Summary

Eleutherococcus sieboldianus, the five-fingered aralia or fiveleaf aralia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. It is native to Anhui province in China, and has been introduced to Korea, Japan and the United States. A variegated form is available which only reaches 8 ft (2.4 m).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Eleutherococcus sieboldianus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina Southeast · introduced: Japan, Korea, Ontario, Illinois, Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Utah, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker29.956, 118.249 · in the densest population, 3 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 27 km away. 528 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 3 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) jamie bee, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2).

Other Eleutherococcus 12 in the reference

Eleutherococcus divaricatus Eleutherococcus divaricatus Spreading-hair eleuthero Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Eleutherococcus giraldii Araliaceae Eleutherococcus henryi Eleutherococcus henryi Araliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Eleutherococcus lasiogyne Araliaceae Eleutherococcus leucorrhizus Eleutherococcus leucorrhizus Araliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizEleutherococcus nodiflorus Eleutherococcus nodiflorus Araliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KenraizEleutherococcus senticosus Eleutherococcus senticosus Siberian ginseng Photo: CC BY-SA, 許文俊Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus Stalkless-flower eleuthero Photo: CC BY, Tatyana Petrenko Eleutherococcus simonii Araliaceae Eleutherococcus trifoliatus Eleutherococcus trifoliatus Three-leaved Eleutherococcus Photo: CC BY, jimmyEleutherococcus wardii Eleutherococcus wardii Araliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Matthieu Sontag (User:Mirgolth) Eleutherococcus wilsonii Araliaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Acanthopanax pentaphyllus; Acanthopanax pentaphyllus var. variegatus; Acanthopanax sieboldianus; Acanthopanax sieboldianus var. variegatus; Aralia pentaphylla and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Araliaceae
Described by
(Makino) Koidz.
Native to
China Southeast
Wild records
3 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 149 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (101 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a herbarium, 45 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 54 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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