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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.

Plants typically grow " tall. Each plant bears a single stem crowned with one or two large, palmately-lobed main lobes , umbrella-shaped leaves to which emerge chartreuse yellowish-green with brown spotting in spring but change to green with lighter spotting by summer.

Polygonate mottled green foliage becomes palmate as the plants mature. One-leaved juvenile plants will not flower. From the crotch leaf axil on two leaved plants, a cluster of large nodding, star-shaped, maroon red flowers each to 2" diameter blooms in spring. Flowers are quite showy but hidden beneath the large leaves.

Each flower may give way to a spherical fleshy green fruit mayapple. Patent documents for this plant specify that plants are self-incompatible, but outcross should occur. Plant Patent PP17, was issued on January 16, No serious insect or disease problems. Protect from spring frosts. Display Garden. May , June , July , August , September. Green , Purple. Part Shade , Full Shade.

Keep evenly moist. Deep South , Deer Resistant. Bring a little bit of outer-space into your garden! Podophyllum pod-o-fil-lum is an herbaceous perennial plants in the barberry family Berberidaceae , described as a genus by Linnaeus in The name is a contraction of the latin anapodophyllumIn, meaning duck's-foot-leaved! Though the common name is mayapple, it's flower appears in early May, not the "apple". The fruit or "apple" is produced early summer and ripens later in summer.

Mayapple has been used by American Indians who used to boil the poisonous root, and use the water to cure stomach aches. D Plant does not flower in December. J Do not Divide in January. F Do not Divide in February. M Do Divide in March. A Do Divide in April. M Do Divide in May. J Do not Divide in June. J Do not Divide in July. A Do not Divide in August.

S Do not Divide in September. O Do not Divide in October. N Do not Divide in November. D Do not Divide in December.