Description
Asarum unzen has good sized flowers which are fat and squat with a rounded, cherry-shaped tube which is deeply impressed with parallel veins. The inside is normally a deep red-purple but in this clone it has lost its purple colourations and it is almost entirely yellow-green with just a subtle hint of pink-peach.
The petals are quite broad and heavily carunculated with warty-looking projections over much of their surface. This clone is more folded and carunculated than our other clones of A.unzen.
The petals themselves are deeply folded at the edges and are a much more yellow-green in contrast to other forms and the main species. There is a ring of raised, warty ridges forming a circle around the mouth of the throat and these too are yellow-green and so they are much less conspicuous than other forms. In contrast the zone between the raised ring and the throat opening, is a wide and a lovely soft, raspberry pink.
The leaves of A. unzen are beautifully patterned, zoned and marbled with silvery-green and sage.
A smaller-growing form, new to our lists in January 2020