ITALIAN LORDS-AND-LADIES

RARE LORDS-AND-LADIES

Arum Italicum

Arum Family [Araceae]  

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29th April 2005, Glasson Dock Branch, Lancaster Canal. Photo: © RWD


29th April 2005, Glasson Dock Branch, Lancaster Canal. Photo: © RWD


31st July 2007, Arnside, Cumbria. Photo: © RWD


29th April 2005, Glasson Dock Branch, Lancaster Canal. Photo: © RWD


23rd May 2008, Shell Island, North Wales. Photo: © RWD
The creamy-marble-veined leaves of some garden specimens.


23rd May 2008, Shell Island, North Wales. Photo: © RWD
The creamy-marble-veined leaves of some garden specimens.


Easily confused with : Lords and Ladies but Lords and Ladies has a purple-brown spadix [the central spike] and a spathe [the cowl-like hood surrounding the spadix] which has purple edges whereas Italian Lords and Ladies has a yellow spadix and a yellowish spathe with no purplish edges.

In anywhere but the deep south of England where it can be found native, Italian (or Rare) Lords and Ladies is only to be found in or near gardens as an escapee.

There are three more sub-species of Italian Lords and Ladies. this is just one of them, I know not which.

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ITALIAN LORDS-AND-LADIES

RARE LORDS-AND-LADIES

Arum Italicum

Arum Family [Araceae]