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n. - Large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage.

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  • There, house plants such as schefflera are trees, and orchids and bromeliads serve as understory plantings, and it seemed to me that there were plants flowering everywhere.
  • At after four in the morning I was still in my office, curled up in the ancient armchair under my schefflera plant, the handwoven throw that usually hid the worn...
  • But it did not damage any of the shop's inventory outside of the schefflera and toys.
  • However, you will be glad to know that schefflera responds very well to severe cutting back.
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