Zingiber mioga Hot Lips Light Shade to Shade Sunflare hakone grass is a

Sunflare hakone grass is a light shade plant that doesn't have much sun tolerance

Each leaf is randomly sectorally blotched with creamy variegation

This highly prized selection produces 18" tall stalks in mid- August with the dazzling flower clusters

The clump emerges all green

Zingiber mioga Hot Lips Light Shade to Shade Sunflare hakone grass is aZingiber mioga 'Hot Lips' is a 2025 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of a stunning bicolor flowered form of the typically yellow flowered Zingiber mioga. In our trials, this more compact selection, forms a 5' tall x 5' wide patch in five years. Starting for us in early October, the base of the plant is laden with masses of carmine red lipped flowers, with a yellow back. This is not a wide spreading form, as are so many of the cultivars.