Description
One of the most beautiful and striking of all Disporum cultivars with almost totally lemon-cream, very rounded leaves, striped here and there with a trace of blue-green on the leaf centres, margins and extremities.
The huge central yellow patch is remarkable and almost more remarkable is that such a highly variegated plant is both easy to grow and vigorous.
It doesn’t spread fast but grows very readily. Garden growth is best incidentally and it is fully hardy. This isn’t one to be tortured in a pot as it prefers woodland-edge conditions with a nice, damp, well-drained, humus-rich soil, a bit of humidity and just a touch of transient light shade but not so much that the variegation is compromised. Having said this, it has done well here in pots of woodland soil plunged in amongst our Asarum.
The name apparently mean “The moon of Awa”, Awa being an old name for a province of Japan. There appear to be two Awa provinces, one was in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture though the second Awa Province in (Tokushima, ) on modern day Shikoku is the one that we are told is the appropriate one in this case.
