The pitcher top is netted yellow and red
magenta-pink petals surrounding the creamy mass of anthers
This delightful dwarf ginger lily was a 1966 discovery in the Dudh Kosi Valley
blue-green leaves which reminded Herb of leather britches (lederhosen)
The glaucous-green leafed clumps are topped in summer with small
Indigofera kirilowii Bernheim Medicinal Plants The pitcher top is nettedWe've grown Indigofera kirilowii for nearly 30 years, and assumed it all looked about the same as the 18" tall form we grew oh, were we wrong. In 2014, when visiting the Cincinnati Zoo, Director of Horticulture, Steve Foltz, showed me their clone, which came from the late plantsman, Buddy Hubbuch, at Kentucky's Bernheim Arboretum. There it grew, 5' tall heart be still! Since Indigofera kirilowii has a huge range from outer Mongolia south into Japan