Lycoris rosea Ueki Black Flowering Plants is a gold-leaved century plant

is a gold-leaved century plant that's brightest in spring

from seed collected near Santa Maria del Oro in Durango

to form a 5' wide patch in 5 years

it's taken us a whopping 17 years to propagate adequate numbers to share

are held atop 4' tall stalks laden with intercalary (between the leaf segments) bulbils in August and September

Lycoris rosea Ueki Black Flowering Plants is a gold-leaved century plantLycoris x rosea 'Ueki' is a vigorous Japanese hybrid of Lycoris sprengeri and Lycoris radiata v. pumila, whose giant 28" tall stalks emerge for us in mid August, each topped with 6 8 intense rosy red flowers, tipped with an attractive blue lavender tip truly stunning! The leaves emerge in fall and persists all winter.