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A species from China and Vietnam. I was sent a leafless piece of rhizome from China, and it is only managing to grow new leaves very slowly, but it seems to be persevering. A bit of a setback that hasn't stopped it from flowering, though there was a hint of desperation about the whole thing. Tim Pelgrims has suggested that this specimen is actually a Rohdea of some sort. My plant came from China but crug Farm Plants have colleced it in Vietnam and say: "More of an intriguing plant that a beauty, which we gathered seed of from small plants which formed small surface rooting creeping branched rhizomes, that carry lanceolate thick-textured leaves to 50cm long at their tips. Forming a clump of dark green foliage with green turning yellow upright spiked bracted inflorescences of unusually scented flowers March-April which in turn form spikes of orange fruit. A collection gathered from Y Ty a mountainous area on the border with China in the very north of Vietnam in 2006. Easily grown in woodland condition in any type of fertile moisture retentive soil." |
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