Aspidistra (Convallariaceae)

zongbayi 'Uan Fat Lady'

A small species from China, that we found in a Japanese nursery in this wonderful more decorative form, with distinct small broadly oval bright green leaves, generally to only 20cm long x 8cm wide, born on slender petioles to 15cm long. The slightly undulating margined leaves are a paler green than most other species, speckled with very pale fuzzy greenish-yellow, as well as bearing a broad central area of pale irregular streaking. Best grown in shade kept dry in winter, hardiness not tested.