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Asarum maximum Hemsl.

Wild ginger

Aristolochiaceae · China South-Central

No habitat climate
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Asarum maximum, photograph KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAsarum maximum, photograph Rictor Norton & David Allen from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAsarum maximum, photograph Rictor Norton & David Allen from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAsarum maximum, photograph Rictor Norton & David Allen from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAsarum maximum, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsAsarum maximum, photograph David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 8 photographs ›

Summary

Asarum maximum is a species of plant in the family Aristolochiaceae. It is endemic to China. The flowers have a distinct smell of mushrooms.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Asarum maximum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Asarum

Asarum is a genus of plants in the birthwort family Aristolochiaceae, commonly known as wild ginger.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Asarum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 37 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 37 of the 37 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker31.332, 110.784 · in the densest population, 15 records (41% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 37 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 14 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1191 km away. 10 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 37 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 37 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Rictor Norton & David Allen from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Asarum 28 in the reference

Asarum arifolium Aristolochiaceae Asarum canadense Asarum canadense Wild ginger Photo: CC BY, Andrew SebastianAsarum caucasicum Asarum caucasicum Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizAsarum caudatum Asarum caudatum Western wild ginger Photo: CC BY, Karen (with occasional help from Mike)Asarum caudigerum Asarum caudigerum Caudate Wildginger Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuAsarum caulescens Asarum caulescens Caulescent Wildginger Photo: CC BY, yajapinAsarum delavayi Asarum delavayi Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY, KENPEIAsarum epigynum Asarum epigynum Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAsarum europaeum Asarum europaeum Asarabacca Photo: CC BY, Wolfgang JauchAsarum fauriei Asarum fauriei Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC BY, Hibiki KatayamaAsarum forbesii Asarum forbesii Aristolochiaceae Photo: CC0, Lihai Song Asarum geophilum Aristolochiaceae all 29 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Heterotropa maxima. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Aristolochiaceae
Described by
Hemsl.
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
37 in range · 14 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2137 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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