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Asarum maximum 'Ling Ling'

Panda Face Ginger

Plant Type:

SHADE PERENNIALS

Asarum maximum 'Ling Ling' - Thick-textured dark green, semi-glossy heart-shaped leaves are beautiful all through the growing season. The tri-lobed flowers are 2-inch stunners! Broadly black-purple-rimmed ginger flowers clearly demarcate and contrast with the white interior with a stud of black-purple at the flower's heart, altogether not unlike Ling Ling, the panda bear. In fact, the common name for Asarum maximum is the Panda Face Ginger. It's a thing of unusual striking beauty, large for a ginger and showy. Site in shade planted in fertile, moist soil. We wish we could grow this one outdoors but in a terra cotta pot it sure is pretty in leaf and amazing in flower... and in a pot it's easy to view the amazing flowers! Established pot grown Ginger from division.


Height:

6 in

Colors:

Black, White

Characteristics and Attributes for Asarum maximum 'Ling Ling'

Season of Interest (Flowering)

  • Spring

Season of Interest (Foliage)

  • Spring / Summer / Autumn

Nature Attraction

  • Deer Resistant

Light

  • Dappled Shade
  • Shade

Attributes

  • Edging
  • Potted Plant
  • Ground Cover
  • Woodland
  • Massing
  • Rock Garden
  • Specimen

Growth Rate in the Garden

  • Slow

Soil

  • Woodland

Origins

  • China

Propagated By

  • Division