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Seemingly uninspiring sprays of leaves that are topped by dull clusters of green flowers. In the garden, the regular columns of leaves rise out of their surroundings
like elfin ladders or little visual bursts of morse code. Quite wonderful. (And as a footnote, this is nothing like the real S.japonica, which has pure white flowers. It is very similar toM. tatsiense but if anyone knows what this plant actually is, I would be grateful for the information!) The bright orange berries make a stronger show than the flowers in spring. The rhizome came from Chen Yi in China. In the catalogue it is recorded as being collected at an altitude of 1,300m. |
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