While Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain has a climate generally too hot and wet in summer to grow temperate northern hostas, it is ideal for growing Asian ornamental Aspidistra plants.
Evergreen, perennial species of Aspidistras are frost hardy in USDA cold zones 7b to 10b in the humid subtropical southeastern United States.
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