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Unusual Tropical Looking Hardy Woodland Plants

These are all members of the Arum family and have unusual spathes typical of the Arum genus but in quite an array of shapes, some like hoods and some sporting whiplash tails. The spathe colours range from white to pink and russets interlaced with green markings. Arisaema also have striking and attractive foliage and mottling is common in many right through from the leaf stems to the leaves.

Arisaema candidissimum
Chinese Jack-in-the-Pulpit n£]]]

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1 Tuber £12.00 JT2044 

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First collected in China almost 100 years ago, this attractive and surprisingly pleasantly scented species with pink and white striped flowers is also one of the easiest to grow. It is also happier in more sun and heat than other species of Arisaema and should slowly build up into nice colonies. Slower to emerge in spring than some, this one is a collectors item and quite rare.

Arisaema concinnum
Jack-in-the-Pulpit  n£]]]

1 Tuber £2.85  JT2045

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Another rare and hardy choice Arisaema and easy to grow with striking brown and white spathes.

Arisaema consanguineum
Jack-in-the-Pulpit n£]]]
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1 Tuber £5.40  JT2046

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One of the easiest to grow, but spectacular, is the giant Arisaema consanguineum. The flowers have a purple-green spathe with narrow, white, vertical stripes and a hood with a filamentous tail-like tip. The spathe encloses the club-like spadix (itself extended by a whiplash tail), which has all over its surface hundreds of tiny flowers. In late summer, the spathe withers and exposes a head of tightly packed red-orange berries. A slender tall plant (to 2 meters!) with mottled snake skin patterned stems.

Arisaema costatum
Cobra Lily n£]]]
1 Tuber £5.25  JT2047

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Tall growing Asian species with a large trifoliate leaf and dramatic dark red/purple hooded spathes, flowering from April to May. The spadix is nearly 70 cm long.

Arisaema speciosum

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Double-Whip Cobra Lily n£]]]

1 Tuber £2.40  JT2048

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This species grows native from Nepal & Northeast India to south central China. It has exotic looking dark purple to chocolate spathes striped or marked white. The mottled or purple-blotched leaf stem bears a huge tropical-looking shiny palmate leaf, divided to look a bit like three leaves with reddish brown margins. It is called a Double-Whip Cobra Lily because it has two tongues. The first is at the pointed tip of the hood or spathe, the "tongue" common to Arisaemas generally. But much stranger is an unexpected tongue that extends from the head of the spadix or jack. To 2ft.

Arisaema tortuosum

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Whip Cord Cobra Lily n£]]]
1 Tuber £2.55  JT2049

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Described as tortuous because of the extremely long, curling green, sometimes purple, spadix which curves out of the mouth of the spathe tube and bends backwards tapering to a fine tip. The spathe itself is lime-green and the stems are mottled green and maroon and snake like. Hardy and reliable this is robust plant once established, with large divided 2 to 3 leaves and flowering in summer. Height to 1 or 1.5 metres

Arisaema triphyllum

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Jack in the Pulpit n£]]]
1 Tuber £1.35  JT2050

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Jack-in-the-pulpit is a spring woodland wildflower usually growing 1ft to 2ft tall. Flower structure consists of the spadix (Jack) which is an erect spike containing numerous, tiny, green to purple flowers and the sheath-like spathe (pulpit) which encases the lower part of the spadix and then opens to form a hood extending over the top of the spadix. The outside of the spathe is usually green or purple and the inside is usually striped purple and greenish white, though considerable colour variations exist. Two large green, compound, long-petioled leaves (1ft to 1.5ft long), divided into three leaflets each, emanate upward from a single stalk and provide umbrella-like shade to the flower. The fleshy stalk and leaves lend an almost tropical aura to the plant.

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Germination --- Easy n, Moderate n and Challenging n

Backlog for Fresh Seed --- u     New Seeds not in Catalogue ---«

Hardiness --- ] (To -5°C) ]] (To -10°C) ]]] (To -15°C) 

Growing Symbols ---  £ Sunny position £ Shady position S  Lots of Water