Dipsorum lanuginosum – is Yellow Mandarin, curiously named in that this is an eastern North American native. Yellow Mandarin is found growing in rich, moist woods and river bottoms mainly in the Appalachians. It flowers in May/June with creamy yellow-white blossoms with an infusion of green dangling alone or in pairs followed by orange-red to red fruit. Attractive, alternating leaves like a fairy ladder run up zig-zagging forking stems. All parts of this plant are fuzzy. Yellow Mandarin is perhaps not quite as beautiful as some of the Asian Disporum counterparts but would be, nevertheless, a handsome member of your woodland garden, especially if your bent is to utilize only native, New World, or “near-native” plants. This moderately spreading, colonizing Fairy Bells hales from Appalachia, north to Ontario, west to Arkansas. Established potted Yellow Mandarin from division.