Polyscias racemosa, a member of the Araliaceae (ginseng) family, is a tree up to 23 ft (7 m) in height with a straight gray trunk crowned with spreading branches. The leaves are 6 to 12 in (15 to 30 cm) long and comprise 5 to 9 oval or elliptical leaflets with clasping leaf stalks. Each leaflet is 3.1 to 6.7 in (8 to 17 cm) long and usually 1.6 to 3.9 in (4 to 10 cm) wide. About 250 pale yellow flowers are borne along a stout, hanging stalk 10 to 24 in (25 to 60 cm) long. Each flower has 5 or 6 lance-shaped petals 0.3 to 0.4 in (8 to 10 mm) long emerging from a cup-shaped or ellipsoid calyx tube. Both the lower surface of the petals and the calyx tube are covered with whitish scaly hairs. The fruit Is an egg-shaped drupe 0.3 to 0.5 in (8 to 12 mm) long and nearly as wide, situated atop a flat, dark red disk (stylopodium).