Lindera megaphylla Medicinal Among the snakebark maples

Among the snakebark maples

and asks only full sun and sharp drainage

sweetly fragrant

and the whole plant breathes a rich

in sun or part shade and ordinary well-drained soil

Lindera megaphylla Medicinal Among the snakebark maplesLindera 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