{"product_id":"hellenia-speciosa-wizard-of-oz","title":"Hellenia speciosa Wizard of Oz","description":"\u003cp\u003e(aka: Costus speciosus) Hellenia speciosa 'Wizard of Oz' is a 2025 Plant Delights\/JLBG introduction of an amazingly winter hardy form of the typically warm tropical, southeast Asian native crepe ginger. This gem is a 2013 Ozzie Johnson collection from near Yan Ming, Vietnam at 3,900' elevation. Emerging in mid-June (NC), the thick, fleshy green stalks, quickly rise to 6' tall. The top of the stalks are wrapped with spirally-arranged, fleshy green leaves, and topped all summer, and until frost, with terminal, pine cone-like clusters of white flowers. If that's not enough, Hellenia speciosa has a wide range of medicinal uses, including treating pleurisy, tonsilitis, swollen uvulas, diabetes, fevers, leprosy, headaches, as a muscle relaxant, and to treat snakebites, as well as cancer...whew! Light open shade and average to slightly dry soils are best.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41907022463063,"sku":"18009","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Hellenia-speciosa-Wizard-of-Oz.i-18009.s-68167.r-1.jpg?v=1791398216","url":"https:\/\/www.plantdelights.sbs\/products\/hellenia-speciosa-wizard-of-oz","provider":"Plant Delights Nursery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}