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Podophyllum hexandrum - Himalayan Mayapple - Berberidaceae (The Barberry Family)
Podophyllum hexandrum - Himalayan Mayapple - Podophyllum hexandrum is a delightful barberry relative for the woodland garden with attractive foliage and delicate pink to white flowers.
Podophyllum hexandrum - Podophyllum hexandrum is a delightful barberry relative for the woodland garden with attractive foliage and delicate pink to white flowers.
 
15cm
Price: $26.99
Zone Hardiness: 5-9
Light: Full Shade, Part Shade
Height: 2-4'
Width: 2-3'
Flower Colour: White/Cream


Availability: Most main catalogue plants ready May 15-June 30.
Product Code: 5276
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Description Fine Print
 
Podophyllum hexandrum is an Asian mayapple with large, lobed, umbrella-shaped, glossy green leaves that emerge with beautiful burgundy mottling like a closed umbrella pushing out of the soil. The flowers are pale pink to white and produce bulbous red orange fruits. Synonym: P. emodi. Mayapples are herbaceous members of the Barberry family that brings us Berberis and Mahonia.
Details
  • Class: Deciduous
  • Soil Moisture: Average, Moist
  • Flowering Time: Early Spring
  • Fragrant: No
  • Foliage Colour: Green, Burgundy/Red/Purple
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Attracts: Bees
  • Habitat: Scrub forests and alpine meadows, usually in humus rich soils, 2000 - 3500 metres in the Himalayas. Very abundant in fir forests in Kashmir.
  • Geographical Origin: Asia and the Pacific - Himalayas
  • BC Native: No


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