Polyscias balfouriana (Hort.Sander.) L.H.Bailey
Balfour Aralia, Dinner Plate Aralia
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Summary
Polyscias balfouriana, known as Balfour aralia or dinner plate aralia, is a species in the family Araliaceae. The species is native from New Guinea to Queensland, Australia.
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About the genus · Polyscias
Polyscias is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with a natural distribution from tropical Africa through Southeast Asia and Australia to islands of the Pacific. As of February 2026, Plants of the World Online recognises 28 synonyms and about 180 species for the genus.
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At a glance
Also known as Aralia balfouriana André; Aralia balfouriana Hort.; Panax balfourii Pynaert; Panax balfourii Pynaert ex Sand.
Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by the genus Polyscias, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.
Warmth and air Cold floor 12 °C (conventional for a tropical foliage plant, archetype table).
The archetype table’s figure; no habitat figure for this species.
Cold floor: 12 °C, the archetype table's conventional minimum for a tropical foliage plant (grouped by the genus Polyscias, which is reliably one kind of plant); no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The archetype table's conventional minimum for the group; no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
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Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Polyscias balfouriana, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Other Polyscias 3 in the reference
Polyscias fruticosa Ming Aralia
Polyscias guilfoylei Geranium Aralia
Polyscias scutellaria Shield Aralia History & registers
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