Rostrinucula dependens Rohdea topped with bright red tubular

topped with bright red tubular flowers beginning in late summer and continuing into fall

From spores

The upright

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Rostrinucula dependens Rohdea topped with bright red tubularOne of the truly great WHATZAT plants of the fall garden, that results in more questions than anything else is Rostrinucula dependens. Little known outside its native haunts in Shaanxi, China and south to Yunnan, this deciduous shrub to 4' tall is adorned with flaking brown bark and acts as a dieback perennial in the northern parts of its hardiness zone. It remains obscure until late summer and into early fall, when the long pendent, branched flower