Description
70 cm high with dark green, red-margined foliage, Smilacina purpurea is an easy, hardy plant which goes well with other woodland species.
This has a very graceful habit and unusually coloured, dark-hued blooms lightened by green centres. There is variation in the proportions of green and red-purple of the flowers.
Superficially this is similar to Smilacina fusca, but it is more robust, with more numerous leaves and it has flowers with petals all equal in size. Flowers are borne in simple racemes (branched panicles in the related Smilacina fusca).
Ideal in moist, humus-rich soils, shade to sun.
