Description
Disporum viridescens can attain 60cm though 30cm is much more normal and the stems, made afresh annually, are clothed in ovate leaves which are almost, but not quite, stemless. At the ends of the stems one or two hanging, starry flowers and borne, in April and May, on long, thin pedicels. Sometimes, on robust plants, there are more flowers than this. Each is white subtly infused with pale green, hanging and star-shaped, some 2cm in diameter.
Black 1cm berries appear in late summer.
A native of woodlands at up to 600m in n.e. China, e. Russia, Japan and Korea and best in a well-drained, leafy soil, in part or dappled shade where it will clump to make a pleasingly decorative mini-thicket without romping all over your garden.
Pictures 1, own work, copyright RarePlants, pictures 2 & 3 (in Gallery) Peter Coxhead – Own work, donated to the public domain, used under CC0,
Introduced to our lists November 2018
