Description
An introduction from China collected by one of the earliest expeditions to China, when the country started to open up in the 1980’s was distributed under this name but the plant actually sent out from that early collectio0n was in fact Disporopsis pernyi. Few people realise that Polygonatum cyrtonema is in fact a valid name, but for a very different plant.
Unlike the evergreen Disporopsis, this has thick knobbly rhizomes and stout arching stems – it is one of the taller Asian species. In May bunches of good-sized, hanging, white flowers appear and purple berries follow.
Easy and very striking in ‘woodsey’ conditions. The true plant.
