Dear Peter & Jude, I think you can find quite a few messages in the archives about Rohdea. I love it too. My favorite is the narrow leaf form and the typical although I have a variety of variegated, too. It has proved totally hardy down well past -20F in the open garden here. It is a monotypic genus, but a few years ago a Japanese taxonomist combined the 8 sp of Tupistra and few other odd genera into an expanded Rohdea. I don't think Peliosanthes is closely related. Easy from seed and fun to search for variants. Aspidistra would be a favorite, if it were hardy here. Speaking of flowers, there's a book in Chinese on the genus with flowers of a couple Chinese species with bright yellow flowers on long stems. Wow! Very un-like more common species of Aspidistra. The genus is highly variable and I think at latest count around 90 species from a few inches tall to 4 or 5 ft !!! Neither is represented on the wiki. Best Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +