Specific epithet refers to the peltate leaves. This plant is tolerant of heavy shade and has showy flowers and fruits. Its stem is glabrous, stout and curving, and grows two to seven feet high. Chinese mayapple is a herbaceous perennial native to China and Tawian in the Berberidaceae (barberry) family. Genus name comes from the Greek words pous or podos meaning a foot and phyllon meaning a leaf with reference to the shape of the leaf in the American species P. MARSH MARIGOLD (Caltha palustris) GREAT SOLOMONS SEAL (Polygonatum commutatum) LARGE-FLOWERED BELLWORT Grows in (Uvularia grandiflora) moist, rich soil of meadows and shaded river banks. Forma deamii is rare throughout its limited range of Pennsylvania to Missouri, and appears to be limited in Missouri to certain populations in Coles county (Steyermark). The flowers bear the mayapple, a small yellow fruit. In some cases it might be the color of the whole apple when other colors are. The white color also attracts the interest of night pollinators like moths. Flowering plants have a pair of leaves forking at the top of the stem, each leaf on a long stalk. Leaves and roots are poisonous, however.įorma deamii differs from the native species, Podophyllum peltatum, by the presence of the color purple in many of the plant parts: light purplish-pink flowers, wine-purple ovaries, maroon-purple fruit and purple-flecked stem and leaf stalks. Montana heritage apples organized by color including red, green, yellow. Leaves and stem: Leaves are umbrella-like, up to 16 inches in diameter, palmately lobed in 5 to 9 parts lobes may be further divided or deeply notched at the tip and lobe edges may be toothed to varying degrees. This perennial has an edge over US-native mayapples because it usually keeps its foliage all through summer, up to the first frost, while native mayapples tend to shrink away when temperatures climb.
Each flower gives way to an edible, fleshy, greenish fruit (mayapple) which turn golden when ripe and may be used to make preserves and jellies. Virtues: Chinese mayapple, or Podophyllum pleianthum, has large leaves that lend bold texture to the shade garden. The root system is long-rhizomatous and fibrous. A berry is produced only when cross-pollination of the flower occurs.
Flowers are quite showy, but usually hidden by the umbrella-like leaves. At maturity, this berry is about 1½' long and pale yellow. From the crotch (leaf axil) on two-leafed plants, a single, nodding, waxy, 6-9-petaled, white flower (3" diameter) appears on a short, thin stem in early spring. Plants with only one leaf will not flower. From a single stem, each plant grows 12-18" tall and features one or two, deeply-divided, palmately-lobed, umbrella-like, pale green leaves (to 12" diameter). Podophyllum peltatum, commonly called mayapple, is a rhizomatous, native Missouri wildflower that occurs in both moist and dry woodland areas throughout the State. Check out our painting advice guides for more tips on picking the right paint color for your next painting project.
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