Acanthus mollis Rue Ledan Musa heavily quilted and puckered blue-green

heavily quilted and puckered blue-green leaves

Old flower stalks are best removed for appearance sake

which can lead to pests like spider mites

even for an amorphophallus

Bandera and Medina

Acanthus mollis Rue Ledan Musa heavily quilted and puckered blue-greenThanks to Herman van Beusekom of the Netherlands for sharing this great bear's breech which he named Acanthus 'Rue Ledan'. This is one of the few Acanthus mollis selections that has grown well in our hot, humid summers. The cutleaf, shiny, dark green foliage composes a large specimen clump to 3' in width. In June, the tropical looking deer resistant clump is topped with 3' tall spikes of pure white flowers (compared with the normal purple hood over