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Large white cupped flowers. I bought it from a hardy plant society sale without any further
details, but it probably derives from one of a couple of recent introductions. The Alpine Garden Society
collected it on their expedition to Sikkim in 1983, and Beddyn and Sue Wynn-Jones
collected it more recently in West Bengal. Wrtiting in the Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society, Robert Rolfe said: "M. oleraceum is taller, rearing to at least 40cm and even double that, with thick rhizomes that send up strikingly reddish arching stems clad with alternate, ribbed, dark green leaves, terminatring in generous panicles of flowers. Pure white in some examples, pinkish-purple in others, these are like unfeasibly large lilies-of-the-valley, branching rather than singly areched in their deployment, with the later bonus of red berries that turn purple with age." Plants of the World online says: "The native range of this species is E. Nepal to S. Central China. It is a rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the temperate biome."brbr | |
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