Zingiber mioga Crugs Zing Texas native plants This small elephant ear tops

This small elephant ear tops out for us at only 30" tall

flowering-sized seedlings from our original collection in Rankin County

a great specimen plant for the summer woodland garden

which ages to gold

Zingiber mioga Crugs Zing Texas native plants This small elephant ear topsZingiber mioga 'Crug's Zing' is a Bleddyn Wynn Jones Crug Farm wild collection of mioga ginger from Chejudo Island, Korea. The dark green, 4" wide x 14" long leaves cloth the 4' tall upright fleshy stalks. Zingiber 'Crug's Zing' is a reasonably quick spreader, forming an 8' wide patch in good soil in five years. The base of each stalk is adorned with orchid like, burgundy and yellow bicolor flowers from September until a hard freeze.