How to Care Devil's club

Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus) is an upright shrub covered in spines that can be irritating and noxious. The burnt stems have historically been used to create face paint and deodorant. Plus, for some Alaskan tribes, devil's Club was used as a talisman to ward off evil. It grows wild in the Pacific Northwest and can also be seen on a few Lake Superior islands. It is a member of the ginseng family.

Metapanax is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae, comprising 2 species. They are endemic to southern China and Vietnam.

Snowflake aralia is a genus of flowering plants . They are trees with spiny trunks. The genus is characterized by palmately lobed leaves, pedicels lacking articulations, at least six petals per flower, and at least six locules per ovary. It has 7 species.They are native to Southeast Asia.

Their leaves are typically grouped in umbrella-shaped arrangements at the tips of long erect branches. The leaves are carried on long petioles, and have conspicuous stipules. The leaves are very variable in shape, often palmately compound with leaflets likewise variable in shape, but also simple or palmate. Their usually dense inflorescences are often spiked, and their small flowers usually have 5 greenish petals. Their stems and underground parts are succulent, and their bark is often corky. It originated in Africa and has its center of distribution in South Africa and the Mascarene Islands. They occur in grasslands, woodlands and forests, from sea level to over 2000 m in altitude. Geographically, they are indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula and the Comoro Islands.

Raukaua is a genus of woody plants. Like most of Araliaceae, they have palmately compound leaves. The leaves are heteroblastic, that is, conspicuously different in form from juvenile to adult. It comprises six species. It has an austral distribution, being indigenous to southern Argentina and Chile, as well as New Zealand and the island of Tasmania.

Pseudopanax (Latin for "false ginseng") is a small genus of 12–20 species of evergreen plants, the majority of which are endemic to New Zealand. Flowers of the genus occur in terminal umbels.

Fatsia is a small genus containing a handful of evergreen shrubs. Though not of particular commercial or culinary importance, a couple of species are planted as ornamentals. Though they don't have particularly showy flowers, fatsia have handsome lobed leaves. In addition, they do very well in the shade, which makes them more versatile for landscaping purposes. Some cultivars are grown as houseplants, too.