Acanthus Mornings Candle India while the 40 year old

while the 40 year old specimen in Raleigh's Jaycee Park sports a 10' tall trunk

during which time it survived 0 degrees F with only a little tip burn

cinnamon-red centers

Thanks to a collecting trip to Mongolia by the University of Nebraska

except when it emerges in spring with a ghostly

Acanthus Mornings Candle India while the 40 year old(Acanthus Morwiho) Acanthus 'Mornings Candle' is a splendid free flowering, sturdy stemmed selection of bear's breech, from Holland's Dirk de Winter of New Generation Plants that is reportedly a hybrid of Acanthus spinosus and Acanthus mollis. Unfortunately, most growers wouldn't know true Acanthus spinosus if it stuck 'em in the rear. We think this is more likely an Acanthus hungaricus x Acanthus mollis hybrid. For us, the 3' wide clump of deeply