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[shark_hat]

Oh, blast the thing. I'm trying to work out what the name is of a plant is that I'd like in my garden, and the decision-tree or photo-identification things I can find all seem to be for native species or else for trees. And of course garden-centre websites all organise their collections by name! This is very annoying.
It's the thing in the left foreground of this picture- it's a commonish garden shrub. Long smooth stalks, ending in big palmate leaves (looking quite like fig leaves.) Any guesses?

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[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

I think I know the plant, just not the name. I usually think of it as "probably some sort of ficus", in fact...

Does the library have the RHS plant finder book, which has more pictures than the online version?

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

Aha, cunning notion! It's nothing more outre than Fatsia japonica (http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=fatsia+japonica&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2). (Apparently you can get variegated ones. Oh well, each to their own.)