Japanese Butterbur Plant Root stock (Petasites Japonicus)

Tropical look with leaves as big as gunnera.

Petasites are perennial plants, usually large, with thick rhizomes or stems. Leaves are often very large and either heart-shaped or kidney-shaded. Scapes or stems many-headed, with any leaves usually reduced to scales. Flowers dioecious in usually rayless heads, purple or white.

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P. japonicus is a substantial plant, producing huge suborbicular leaves to 90cm across, reaching 150cm in height, in summer. Flowers are cream to white, borne in February on stout erect stems to 30cm.

Petasites japonicus var. giganteus. This is a monster plant for the waterside, bearing enormous rounded leaves that look a little like rhubarb. Greenish flowers appear on naked stems in early spring. A bold, textural plant, it looks great beside a pond or stream.

Poised, damp-loving, hardy. It’s leaves are light yellow-green initially, becoming darker later in the year, 40 - 100cm long. It prefers woodland, shady hedges, stream banks and mountain ledges but tolerates full sun, damp soil and even exposed, windy positions. It also grows in heathland, moorland, in the open on hillsides and mountains and especially among rocks.

Info Pack:

Climate: Arid, Cold, Continental, Highland, Humid Continental, Humid Subtropical, Marine West Coast, Mediterranean, Mountain, Semiarid

Indoor/Outdoor: Outdoor

Watering: Heavy

Growth Habit: Clumping

Soil Type: Chalk, Clay, Loam, Peat, Saline, Sand

Growth Rate: Fast

Colour: Blue, Gold, Green

Sunlight: Full Shade, Full Sun, Low Sun, Medium Sun

Brand: Cheshire Heritage

Features: Air Purifying, Cold Resistant, Deciduous, Deer-Resistant, Draught Resistant

Plant Form: Crown

Safety: Child Safe, Pet Safe

Season of Interest: Autumn, Spring, Summer