Identification: Plant identification and care requested

Hello from the Canadian Arctic,

We have two plants that I would like help identifying. We also need help because leaves keep falling off.

You can see on one plant that the stem is bare more than half way up (it lost most of its leaves last year). The other plant recently started to lose leaves as well. It is spring and we are getting more and more sunlight. We have about 18 hours of sunlight now and will get about 24 in late June. I am not sure if it is because of the sunlight and I need to increase the watering. But the leaves are yellow and I wonder if that is from over-watering.

From base to tip, the plants are around 9 - 10.5 feet. Each leaf is about 12 inches long.

Thanks for any help!

Tropical plants north of 60 degrees

 

Looks like a Schefflera to me.

 

It is Brassaia actinophylla

 

Brassaia is correct. Common name Schefflera, or umbrella tree. Given lots of sun, will flower. To get more, chop it up and pot the pieces. Break the stems off the top piece, and the top piece will root and pop more leaves. Mine (outside) will grow to twenty feet,or so, then I cut them to about 6 feet. These then pop one to four new stems to make the clump more dense. Three original stems (trunks) have now become twelve. On these big guys, the cut off stem gets sawed up and recycled.

 

Thanks for your help identifying the plants.

Any help with care would be appreciated too.

In the Canadian Arctic

 

Check out - http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/Foliage/folnotes/scheffle.htm

 

Judging by a plant that size, if the plant is in good light, it probably wants more water. Make sure you give it a good soaking, then let it dry out a little before you water again.