{"url":"https://treescape.app/api/genera/fatsia/?format=json","slug":"fatsia","latin_name":"Fatsia","description":"Fatsia is a small genus of three species of evergreen shrubs in the family Araliaceae native to southern Japan and Taiwan. They typically 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.  The genus was formerly classified within a broader interpretation of the related genus Aralia.","gbif_id":3039039,"image_thumbnail":"https://treescape.app/media/plant_species/images/thumbnails/fatsia_thumbnail_6NrNwCA.jpg","image_large":"https://treescape.app/media/plant_species/images/large/fatsia_thumbnail_yLp1nVX.jpg"}