I have this plant for long years now and it is a good grower here. It goes totally dormant in winter, so dormant I can not see anything and it looks like it has gone or is eaten by mice! But in spring all the new fans grow strongly out of the ground and make a strong clump. The color is always clear, no stipples also in a colder periode, but the teeth may be a bit bigger, sometimes it is difficult to see it has teeth. I never got pods on this one.