Fatsia, my Alien plant

FATSIA

I've seen one of these plants at over 15 feet high, not sure I want to let this one grow that tall as the neighbours really would think I was breeding Triffids. On closer inspection the dew drop has magnified the surface of the flower to reveal what look like micro pores. It's amazing to see what you can find if you look hard enough.

Fatsia is a small genus of three species of evergreen shrubs native to southern Japan and Taiwan. They have stout, sparsely branched stems bearing spirally-arranged, large leathery, palmately lobed leaves 20-50 cm in width, on a petiole up to 50 cm long, and small creamy-white flowers in dense terminal compound umbels in late autumn or early winter, followed by small black fruit.