Pot Size: 9cm Price: £12.00 Description: A low evergreen perennial species with creeping elongated rhizomatous roots. Bearing 2-3 leaves per stem, which are heart shaped decoratively white to pale green marked on their upper surfaces, purple below, somewhat reminiscent of Cyclamen foliage. The brownish flowers are three lobed borne near the ground with wrinkled centres. From one of our collections gathered from the dark damp forest of Taipingshan, a mountainous area in northern Taiwan in November 1993 at around 1885m. Best grown in a fully to partly shaded site, in a moisture retentive acidic to neutral soil which is drained.
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