Description
While it prefers an acidic moist soil
it has been used in Chinese medicine to treat stomach ailments
moist woodlands from Canada south to Georgia
some morning sun or high
alkaline soils are preferable
Drimiopsis maculata Slow Fade Violet Flowering Plants While it prefers an acidic(aka: Ledebouria petiolata) This delightful clone of African false hosta is from our 2002 expedition to Thailand, when Wade Roitsch of Yucca Do Nursery picked this up at the Chatuchak plant market. Wade noticed that the leaves were larger than the commonly grown form and the foliar patterning held up better in the summer heat. For us, Drimiopsis maculata 'Slow Fade' makes a winter deciduous basal rosette of fleshy green foliage, highlighted with dark