Variegated schefflera plant `Josef Resch`

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Brassaia actinophylla, more commonly known as Schefflera, characterized by the extensive and attractive variegation of the foliage.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of Schefflera plant of the species Brassaia actinophylla substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the overall variegation of leaves, stems, and trunk from mimosa to green, close noded position of stems and upright rapid growth with leaves of leathery semi-gloss appearance on the top side and leathery matte appearance on the underside, and with a preponderance of leaf stems at the top portion and the intermediary portion of the plant extending umbrella-like with leaves hanging on towards the lower portion of the plant.