Ranzania japonica Dahlia Each leaf emerges with blue

Each leaf emerges with blue edges and a brilliant creamy center that gradually changes to dark chartreuse

albeit slow to establish into a full-size clump

selected from a batch of seedlings in the 1980s

whose color holds all growing season

Ranzania japonica Dahlia Each leaf emerges with blueRanzania japonica is a rarely available monotypic (only one species) Asian cousin of epimedium, podophyllum, and jeffersonia. The deciduous 18" tall x 18" wide clumps emerge in spring with stalks of dangling lavender flowers held in clusters just under the developing foliage. If the flowers are pollinated, you can enjoy the white fruit during early summer. Ranzania does not love heat, so keep it in very open morning sun or light shade, where the soil