Rostrinucula dependens Israel I couldn't believe that it

I couldn't believe that it was real

In late winter and early spring (February through April

only later to rediscover it in the wilds of Korea

glossy green leaves form a fine-textured specimen that looks like something you'd see in the tropics

oblong petals surrounding a contrasting white eye etched in blue

Rostrinucula dependens Israel I couldn't believe that itOne of the truly great WHATZAT plants of the fall garden, that results in more questions than anything else is Rostrinucula dependens. Little known outside its native haunts in Shaanxi, China and south to Yunnan, this deciduous shrub to 4' tall is adorned with flaking brown bark and acts as a dieback perennial in the northern parts of its hardiness zone. It remains obscure until late summer and into early fall, when the long pendent, branched flower