genus Aralia

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genus Aralia - type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants Araliaceae, family Araliaceae, ivy family - mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera aralia - any of various plants of the genus Aralia; often aromatic plants having compound leaves and small umbellate flowers American angelica tree, Aralia spinosa, devil's walking stick, Hercules'-club - small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States Aralia nudicaulis, false sarsaparilla, wild sarsaparilla, wild sarsparilla - common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America American spikenard, Aralia racemosa, life-of-man, petty morel - unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico Aralia hispida, bristly sarsaparilla, bristly sarsparilla, dwarf elder - bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark Aralia elata, Japanese angelica tree - deciduous clump-forming Asian shrub or small tree; adventive in the eastern United States