Matteuccia orientalis (Oriental ostrich fern)
Other names: Matteuccia japonica , Onoclea orientalis
M. orientalis is a deciduous fern with spreading, widely ovate, pinnate, bright green sterile fronds surrounding long, narrower, fertile fronds that emerge near black and turn reddish-brown in autumn.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Rodgersia podophylla (Rodger's flower)
Other names: Rodgersia japonica, Rodgersia
R. podophylla is an upright, clump-forming, rhizomatous perennial with large, palmate leaves that are crinkled and bronze when young, smooth, glossy and mid-green with age and bronze-red in autumn. Upright panicles of creamy-green flowers bloom in mid- to late summer.
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1.8m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Astilbe 'Montgomery' (Astilbe 'Montgomery')
Other names: Astilbe japonica ‘Montgomery’
'Montgomery' is an herbaceous perennial with dark-green divided leaves. Throughout summer, it bears plumes of rose-red flowers on dark stems.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Helwingia japonica (Japanese helwingia)
Other names: Helwingia rusciflora, Osyris japonica
H. japonica is an upright, often suckering, deciduous shrub with lance-shaped, glossy, dark green leaves and clusters of green flowers blooming from the leaf midrib in spring followed by spherical, glossy, black fruit on female plants.
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2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Other names: Wasabia japonica, Japanese horseradish, Japanese horse radish
W. wasabi is a tender, slow-growing, mound-forming, evergreen perennial with a thick, edible rhizome-like underground stem, long-stalked, glossy, heart-shaped, mid-green leaves and racemes of tiny, white flowers in spring.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Actaea japonica compact (Compact Japanese bugbane)
Other names: Japanese bugbane compact, Cimicifuga acerina compact, Cimicifuga japonica compact , Actaea japonica 'Compact'
A. japonica compact is an upright, clump-forming, rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial with pinnate leaves divided into ovate or rounded, irregularly lobed, dark green leaflets and upright, wiry stems bearing terminal racemes of unscented, creamy-white flowers in late summer and early autumn.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.7m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Astilbe 'Avalanche' (Astilbe 'Avalanche')
Other names: Astilbe japonica 'Avalanche', Spirea 'Avalanche', Feather flower 'Avalanche'
'Avalanche' is a compact, semi-dwarf perennial with deeply-divided, deep green leaves and erect panicles of white flowers in summer.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Trautvetteria carolinensis var. japonica (Tassel rue)
Other names: Japanese tassel rue, False bugbane, Japanese false bugbane, Trautvetteria japonica
T. carolinensis var. japonica is a mound-forming, herbaceous perennial with palmate, mid-green leaves and erect stems bearing branched clusters of rounded, fluffy, white flowers from early summer into early autumn.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.4m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo' (Variegated water celery 'Flamingo')
Other names: Variegated water parsley 'Flamingo', Variegated water dropwort 'Flamingo', Oenanthe japonica 'Flamingo', Oenanthe stolonifera 'Flamingo', Oenanthe fistulosa 'Flamingo'
'Flamingo' is a moisture-loving, spreading, deciduous perennial with horizonal, rooting stems bearing pinnate, variegated pink, cream and mid-green leaves with ovate, toothed leaflets and clusters of small, star-shaped, white flowers in summer.
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0.9m max. spread |
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0.4m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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