Description
This has large, impressive, tough, scallop-edged, circular leaves 30-40 cm across, on strong stems, below a wiry spike that holds a small flower-ball of white flowers, each with a protruding deep-yellow centre. Whilst not massive, these are a little “extra” on a plant largely grown for its architectural effect. The brownish tips on some of the flowers in our picture by the way, are the traces of the husks that house the flower buds, these fall off as the petals expand, this is not browning of the petals.
After flowering green berries are made, but then the flowering stems turn bright red and the fully ripened, deep blue-black berries follow.
Quietly nice, and does well in an average shade garden, but will take more water and worse drainage and grow larger still!
