Plant ID

 Can anyone tell us what this is please?  Ray found it in the prop.
house and has a blank hole in his memory banks!
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb345/HillHouseNursery/th_P1040461.jpg
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 writes

The following URL is more helpful - the URL above is an unlinked
thumbnail.

http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb345/HillHouseNursery/P1040461.jpg

I don't recognise it, but it might be a foliage variant of Fatsia
japonica.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

 On 25/09/2011 20:05, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

I have never seen a leaf formation like that.  Is there a botanical name
for that (extreme perfoliate?) arrangement?

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Jeff

 
It's not perfoliate. Note the gap between the top two veins.

Fatsia is cordate and palmately lobed. Schleffera is palmate. This leaf
could be interpreted as like Fatsia, but with marginal sinuses along the
lobes. Or it could be interpreted as like Schleffera but with winged
petiolules, with the wings fused (webbed petiolules).
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

 
Now having the name (Trevesia) I can look it up on the web.

The leaves are described as pseudo-compound.

"They are remarkable for the unusual pseudo-compound leaves that occur
in several of the species. Leaves of all the species are palmately
lobed, but in some the lobes are narrowed to form false petiolules, and
the lamina is expanded again towards the base of the leaf. In one
species (T. burckii Boerl.) these leaves are the normal adult state,
while in another species (T. palmata (Roxb. ex Lindl.) Vis.) the leaf
dissection is variable both between and within individual plants."

    Jebb, A Revision of the Genus Trevesia, Glasra 3: 85-113 (1998)
    http://www.botanicgardens.ie/glasra/ns3_5.pdf
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Stewart Robert Hinsley