Japanese Aralia - Sun King - Producing Fall Berries - October 2026
In previous growing seasons, some of the Japanese Aralia Sun Kings have flowered. They send up a shoot of a tight cluster of yellow-ish tight flowers on single stalks. Here is a post from early September of 2025 when I caught what I thought were (just) flowers that emerged (for me) for the first time . In that post , I included this description: Sun King’ is a golden-leaved cultivar that features a large rounded clump of golden yellow compound leaves which is topped in summer by 2’ tall spikes of tiny white flowers. Deep reddish-purple to purplish-black inedible berries ripen in fall . Birds love the berries. (emphasis, mine) Well...guess what? For the first time, these purplish-black berries arrived. Pretty neat. Here's a look at one of the most-mature Sun Kings that had its flowers turn into berries. A lot like what happens with Viburnum: Nice little mid-October highlight in an otherwise "beginning to go to sleep" garden that is ti...