Ours began flowering last week just beside the path leading from the Asian Collections Parking Lot to the GCA Circle. It is, typically, vase-shaped with pleasantly coarse dark green leaves and these very curious flowers. Graham Stuart Thomas described them as "fuchsia-like" while Dan Hinkley likened them to
Dodecatheon, the Shooting-star. I guess there's some resemblance, but really they're unique. I know, only from the literature, that they produce brighly colored blue to violet fruits that are reputed to be striking against the yellow fall foliage.
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