Smyrnium olusatrum shade but this is a Hokonui

but this is a Hokonui plant and I found this picture on a pinterest post form ages ago

I have had it slowly spreading for so long

Easy care  and sprawls over walls

but if you get a few spare corms

Smyrnium olusatrum shade but this is a HokonuiAn amazing early leaved plant heralding the end of winter. Edible too Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal regions of Europe. This is one of the first bits of greenery of winter on field edges and on cliff pathways. The sprays of flowers are yellow green in colour, and its amazing heads of large, attractive, shiny seeds are jet black. Originally the Romans brought it with them to eat, leaf, stem, root, and buds, although it is now almost forgotten as a