Healerwitch's Garden
Liriope
Genus: Liriope.
Species: Liriope muscari.
This is one of the plants that an Elderly neighbor gifted me with this summer. Her husband had dug out tons of it and wanted it gone! My husband and I have been trying to find enough places for it this year.
The plant is very hardy, and nothing seems to kill it! I have some in a bucket, not planted for 7 or 8 weeks now...and found them blooming this week!!!
What surprised me while researching it was it’s medicinal uses. Looking at it I expected it to be less valuable! But the Koreans used it as a tonic to increase stamina. The root has been used as an anti inflammatory, a pectoral (Useful in relieving disorders of the chest or respiratory tract), a stimulant (temporarily arouses or accelerates physiological or organic activity), and an aphrodisiac (stimulating sexual arousal).
The root was even eaten!
