Asarum costatum

£30.00

Flowering sized rhizomes.

Despatched November to April.

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Description

This is, in the wild anyway, a rare species from Shikoku Island.

Though rare Asarum costatum is well established in cultivation, by virtue of its clumping habit. It makes lovely, shiny, evergreen, leaves to some 12 cm long. The upper surface of these can be plain or more usually variously patterned in silver and sage green. Based on the leaf patterns, there are now selected clones entering horticulture from Japan.

Under the leaves lurk typical Asarum two-tone flowers bent a little into the shape of a “Dutchman’s pipe”

This takes heat very well and can be grown indoors as a glasshouse plant as well as out in the garden where it is fully hardy, with us anyway.