Skeleton Flower

Diphylleia

The Diphylleia grayi is an amazing flower with white petals that change beautifully transparent upon contact with water. During light rain showers, the delicate blooms transform into blossoms as clear as glass.

Diphylleia grayi is a little-known mayapple and fairy wing relative, native to moist wooded mountainsides in colder regions of China and Japan. 

Diphylleia grayi forms clumps of large, fuzzy, green, umbrella-like, bold foliage topped by small clusters of white, mayapple-like flowers in late spring.

When it rains on the flowers they magically turn translucent then return to white as they dry. In late summer, the stalks of eye-catching cobalt blue fruit replace the faded flowers. Diphylleia grayi does not like hot summer temperatures so plant it in a cool moist woodland site.

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