Lindera megaphylla Medicinal and a long-standing favorite in

and a long-standing favorite in our own garden

Among the snakebark maples

and the whole plant breathes a rich

For years they sat in Verbenaceae

The papery pods do drop in quantity

Lindera megaphylla Medicinal and a long-standing favorite inLindera megaphylla is a plant for the patient collector, a broad leaved evergreen of real presence and pedigree that reveals itself over seasons rather than days. The species comes from the mist laden mountain forests of western China, where the shrub grows in dappled light among rhododendrons and ancient oaks. Sir Harold Hillier, the great British plantsman, first shared this rarity with Western gardens in the 1970s from his famous nursery, and even