Asarum inflatum Shanghai Alpinia This selection comes from Garden

This selection comes from Garden Chicory Nursery in the city of Nakatsugawa

Cut this plant to the ground after frost has killed it

5" apricot-colored flowers

the South American equivalent of our native Crinum americanum

but painfully slow-growing century plant

Asarum inflatum Shanghai Alpinia This selection comes from GardenAsarum inflatum 'Shanghai' is the only form of the rarely grown Chinese Asarum inflatum that we are aware of in cultivation. Asarum inflatum 'Shanghai' makes a 6" tall x 18" wide (in 5 years) slowly spreading evergreen patch of very thick, 5" long, heart shaped leaves that are green with a muted silver marbling. The clumps are adorned in early April (NC) with stunning masses of large purple black flowers, each with a corrugated white eye. Thanks to