Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea Each clump can produce dozens

Each clump can produce dozens of 6" flower stalks that are topped with 1" white daisies in early April (NC)

Each plant bears a ten leaflet leaf to the side of the main stem

and butterflies

before being moved to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Alabama in 1976

Musella lasiocarpa Cuphea Each clump can produce dozensThis magnificent ornamental banana is more of a shrub than the typical taller banana. The stiff, thick, leathery, grey green, banana like foliage is borne atop a stalk that can eventually reach 6' in height. Instead of being prized for its fruit, Musella lasiocarpa is grown more for its flowers. Each specimen is home to large, bizarrely beautiful, yellow flowers that look like giant golden artichokes we're not making this up! For us, Musella