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This is a lovely sweet little Asarum. The leaves are a long tapered heart, deep green with all of the veins picked out in a pale sage green. The growth is tight with the leaf arrangement chaotic as if all of the leaves are scrabbling to crowd out of a doorway at once.
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This is a lovely sweet little Asarum. The leaves are a long tapered heart, deep green with all of the veins picked out in a pale sage green. The growth is tight with the leaf arrangement chaotic as if all of the leaves are scrabbling to crowd out of a doorway at once.
CAUTION. All parts of this plant are poisonous.
All of the members of this family are chiefly foliage plants, the curious flowers occurring at ground level. The flowers are fly pollinated and hence have no need to be showy, relying on smell as an attractant. They are plants of the woodland floor and occur on both coasts of North America as well as in the Orient.
Asarum canadense bears the name Wild Ginger, on account of the dried roots substituting for ginger. However, caution should be applied as all parts of Asarum europaeum are very poisonous.
The flowers have a 3 point symmetry and can bear long whip like tails. EA Bowles described the flowers of Asarum shuttleworthii as a ‘buttonhole suitable for the devil.’
Asarum europaeum can be found wild in Britain in Westmorland and the North.
Aristolochiaceae
Asarabacca, Hazelwort, Wild Nart – Asarum europaeum (Asarabacca is a combination of the Greek and Lydian names ‘asaron’ and ‘bakkar’
Wild Ginger, Canada Snakeroot, Indian Ginger, Coltsfoot – Asarum canadense
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