Quackin Grass Nursery

Asarum minamitanianum - The spring flowers on this most unusual hardy ginger are fascinating. Three-lobed and purple-blackened, each flower is quite clearly and evenly edged in contrasting light green to yellow green. The three lobes extend at the tips into long mouse tails in the same yellow-green color. Each lobe can measure 4 inches in length! Pretty, evergreen heart-shaped glossy green leaves are mottled in pewter. Moustache Wild Ginger is rare in this country and now apparently rare in Kyushu's wild... perhaps sadly even extinct. A collector's plant to be sure and another species under assault. Let's keep it going. Fertile humus that drains well set in shade to dappled conditions. Dryish summer shade suits this extraordinary species well. Pot grown division.