Whether you call it Gunnera manicata, Dinosaur Plant or Chilean Rhubarb, this is a show stopper in the shade garden. One of the biggest and most spectacular herbaceous plants, it boasts giant serrated leaves on prickly stems. Fast growing is an understatement. It is great along pond edges or in big gardens with partial or full shade as it reaches up to 7 feet tall and wide.This zone 7 plant's leaves wither to the ground in the winter and burst with giant green leaves year after year in the spring and summer. We have just a few of these in the plant nursery at Westport Winery Garden Resort plus we have several in the gardens so you can see for yourself how they look. It is also deer resistant.