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Aspidistra elatior, the cast-iron-plant [3] or bar-room plant, also known in Japanese as haran or baran (葉蘭) [4] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Japan and Taiwan.
Aspidistra elatior, the "cast-iron plant", is a popular houseplant, surviving shade, cool conditions and neglect. It is one of several species of Aspidistra that can be grown successfully outdoors in shade in temperate climates, where they will generally cope with temperatures down to −5 °C (23 °F), being killed by frosts of −5 to −10 ...
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This species is a perennial herb. Its rhizome is creeping, with a diameter of between 3 and 4 millimetres (0.12 and 0.16 in). Its leaves are 5 to 10 millimetres (0.20 to 0.39 in) apart, the petiole measuring about 7 centimetres (2.8 in), being gracile; the lamina is ovate and tapers towards a long tip, measuring between 13 and 15 centimetres (5.1 and 5.9 in) by 3.5 to 5 centimetres (1.4 to 2.0 ...
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Aspidistra is a plant genus (from the Greek aspidion, a small round shield). Aspidistra may also refer to: Aspidistra elatior, an Aspidistra species used as a houseplant; Aspidistra (transmitter), a radio transmitter codenamed Aspidistra and used by Britain in the Second World War to beam propaganda to Germany; An Aspidistra in Babylon, novel ...
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It counts with 11 or 12 stamens, while its anthers are subsessile and ovoid, each up to 3 millimetres (0.12 in) long; the ovar is indistinct. The style is 3 by 5 millimetres (0.12 by 0.20 in) long, while the stigma is disc-shaped and is 8 millimetres (0.31 in) thick, its central part white with 5 purple ribs, with 22-24 teeth. [1]