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Asarum maximum 'Ling Ling'
Panda Face Ginger
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SHADE PERENNIALSAsarum 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.
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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