Cultivar
'Variegata'
This upright shrub grows to 3 m tall by 2 m wide with a branched rounded habit. It has a large palmately lobed green and yellowish variegated leaves.

It prefers a moist protected position and grows in most well-drained moderately fertile moist soils. This plant is used along borders for colour contrast or grown as a potted specimen tolerating USDA zones 8-11.

Weed Potential
As a weedFatsia japonica is wide spread in coastal regions of Australia and is highly invasive growing in native habitats including along water courses or in disturbed ground along roadways.

It is a quick growing and can establish and large shrub that cuts out the light to native seedlings and is moderately long lived growing in sunny or shaded moist positions.

Mature plants produce copious amounts of viable seeds that germinate readily and the plant can sucker from the base forming clumps. The seeds are dispersed by water or by animals and in garden waste or soil.

Control methodsinclude collecting and bagging seeds then physically digging out small infestations including the roots, and then all plant material should be removed off site and destroyed. Spraying plants with a non-selective herbicide may be ineffective as the leaf has a glossy surface inhibiting penetration. Follow up applications are required on mature plants.