Aspidistra oblanceifolia Nagoya Stars Eastern Asia with 18" long flower spikes

with 18" long flower spikes

Just like those Christmas visions of sugar plums dancing

deeply-cupped green leaves

Ranga Agriculture University as a food crop where it is known by the moniker Elephant foot yam

olive and silver

Aspidistra oblanceifolia Nagoya Stars Eastern Asia with 18" long flower spikesWhere has this incredible aspidistra been all my life? Actually, Aspidistra oblanceifolia is a recently (1982) named Chinese species (southern Guizhou, western Hubei, and Sichuan) of cast iron plant. Thanks to plantsman Ted Stephens for sharing this cast iron plant he picked up from a Japanese nursery. In five years, Aspidistra 'Nagoya Stars' makes a fantastic 30" tall x 6' wide clump of upright, outward arching, dark glossy green leaves that are