Bletilla striata Tri Lips Berlandiera The flower of Amorphophallus yunnanensis

The flower of Amorphophallus yunnanensis emerges in early spring

but is slightly more endowed in the length of its creamy "organ

coppery-orange flowers

Each leaf has a deep "V" in the middle

The Asian terrestrial orchid

Bletilla striata Tri Lips Berlandiera The flower of Amorphophallus yunnanensisThis bizarre selection of the Japanese ground orchid, Bletilla striata, makes a nice deciduous clump of pleated green leaves, topped in late April (NC) with narrow flower stalks. Each 2' stalk is adorned with dark purple flowers that each have three lips instead of the normal one sort of like you would look after a boxing match with Mike Tyson. Bletilla striata 'Tri Lips' is truly one of the strangest mutations I've ever seen on a hardy perennial.