Asarum splendens, Chinese Ginger Size:1 qt They are so unusual that

They are so unusual that they usually require a double take from uninitiates

starting as early as November

bright green almost fringed leaves held tightly to the branches

forest margins

Mature size: 3 ft T x W in 10 years

Asarum splendens, Chinese Ginger Size:1 qt They are so unusual thatThis rather recent and native Chinese arrival is a woodland groundcover ginger with large, dark green, evergreen, and deer resistant leaves. Asarum splendens is a vigorously rhizomatous species and makes a dense carpet of green and silver mottled hearts. In early spring the large, 2 inch, deeply cupped flowers of dark purple brown are a unique and exclamation eliciting bloom when discovered beneath the foliage. (Not culinary; called ginger for its