Tricyrtis Edo no Hana Tiarella This old Japanese cultivar is

This old Japanese cultivar is still one of the most prized hostas in American gardens

primarily due to fire suppression

from a slowly creeping rhizome that makes a 4' wide clump in 6 years

but many of us have not observed anything other than typical female fruiting traits

comes to us from the garden of South Africa's Ian Smith

Tricyrtis Edo no Hana Tiarella This old Japanese cultivar isTricyrtis 'Edo no Hana' is a Japanese selection, supposedly of the Taiwanese Tricyrtis lasiocarpa, but the growth habit tells us that it is probably a hybrid with T. lasiocarpa. The flowers, which top the 22" tall x 5' wide spreading patch, begin for us in mid September with mauvy lavender tipped petals, each speckled toward the throat and lightening in color toward the basal yellow blotches plus each flower has been tricked out with a rosy red stigma.