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Arboricola ‘Trinette’

Common Name: Variegated Arboricola

Scientific Name: Shefflera arboricola ‘Trinette’

Type of Plant: Shrub

Description: Perhaps one of the most versatile tropical plants we offer. ‘Trinette’ is a variegated arboricola that is a gardener’s dream plant. Its bright yellow and green foliage is showy, it’s easy-to-grow and easy to care for, and very versatile; thriving in either sun or shade! The plant grows to 6 feet tall but is one of the easiest plants to trim to keep at almost any size. No problem keeping it to as small as 3 feet by 3 feet. 

Mature Size: 3-6′ tall x 3-6′ wide.

Blooms: No

Fruit:  No

Climate Requirements: Arboricola like sun or shade!  Well-drained soil is a must. This plant does not like constantly soggy soil.

Care Requirements: Fertilize 3 times a year with a granular, slow-release fertilizer

Spacing: Space plants 12-18″ apart

Water Needs: Average.  Let dry out between waterings.

Maintenance: Low, when allowed to grow naturally. To keep smaller, just cut off any tall, wayward stems just below the level of other foliage as desired.

Special Uses/Attributes: Trinette Arboricola  is useful as a colorful accent or specimen shrub, as a hedge, in foundation plantings, or in containers. Excellent year round houseplant anywhere!  Resistant to Deer, Heat, Humidity, Sun, Shade, Insects, Disease

Florida Native: No

Shrubs, Tropicals

Anise

Common Name: Yellow Anise/Ocala Anise

Scientific Name: Illicium parviflorum

Type of Plant: Shrub

Description: Light, yellow-green, elongated oval leaves which produce a licorice-like aroma when crushed. Flowers from May to June, but blooms are insignificant. Fruit is showy, multi-pointed, and star shaped. Multi-trunk structure with a moderate growth rate.

Mature Size: 10-15′ tall x 6-10′ wide.

Blooms: Inconspicuous

Fruit:  The seed pods of the Yellow Anise look very similar to the culinary spice, but are not edible.

Climate Requirements: Yellow Anise can be planted in almost any conditions found in central Florida, but it is not particularly salt-tolerant.

Care Requirements:

  • The plant will need to be watered more often if grown in full sun, but is moderately drought resistant.
  • If allowed to grow on its own, the Yellow Anise will take on a pyramidal shape, but can easily be pruned into formal hedges or limbed up as a small multi-trunked tree.

Spacing: Space plants 48-60″ apart

Water Needs: Average

Maintenance: Low

Special Uses/Attributes: Yellow Anise are well suited for creating borders or as single specimens in smaller landscapes.

Florida Native: Yes

Inventory, Shrubs