Saruma henryi

Description

Another species that luckily was/is cultivated because it is now listed as endangered in its wild habitat. The reason may be loss of habitat because it is not a difficult to grow plant.
It forms a clump of felty, heart-shaped leaves with stems bearing yellow flowers in late spring; it may continue blooming throughout the summer, especially if cut back a little. It needs its space to develop nicely, in a part-shades location; most often it will seed around if happy.

I would grow it if only for its specific epithet which honors plant collector Augustine Henryi, to whom we owe many of our Chinese garden plants! But apart this, it is a great, tough plant for a part-shaded location, where it can be combined with Asarum, Aristolochia, Podophyllum, Glaucidium, Stylophorum…to mention just few other species.

Germination: easy with moist kept seeds, just like Asarum spp. – warm/cold cycles. It is possible that the seeds will only germinate in the second year. You can also direct sow this species (naturally self seeds in the garden if it likes the location).