If you air layer this plant , you can discard most of the bare trunk, then
re-pot the new root system attached to the plant. The shorter trunk will now
offer plenty of support.
Google search offers a variety of sites which discuss air layering.


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Pat Kiewicz wrote:
CP_Redhead said:

We bought this plant at IKEA (of all places!) a little less than 5 years
ago.
We thought it would be a small houseplant that we would kill in just a
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http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x...tion=view&curr
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Looks like a Schefflera, AKA umbrella tree. A very leggy Schefflera.
If it's the most common sort, S. actinophylla, it really wants to be a
tree (up to 40 feet tall).

Yeah, it has a long "stump" and is falling over b/c the "stump" can't
support
it. I don't think it can survive outdoors in the Seattle, WA area...

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