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| I got one tuber in Summer of 2011, it was 35mm in diameter. | I planted it in the garden, in October it started to grow. |
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In the garden it was planted shallow in a pot. Afraid of the incoming winter, at the end of November I took the plant home.
In spite of growing in the most sunny place in the southern window, it grew about 60 cm tall. |
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| The first leaves were hastate, the next ones triangularly sagittate. |
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All Arum plants cultivated at home are very susceptible to spider mites attacks from "nowhere".
None of the plants on the sill was infested, but they appeared on this one. |
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| Cataphylls preceeding the leaf are purple and there are usually purple streaks on the lower part of the petioles. |
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December, the 10th - an inflorescence in a bud
The outer margin of the spathe is purple. | The spathe opened on the 13th, the whole plant
had an untypical habit with its vertically upheld leaves. |
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The inflorescence is scentless. The spathe interior in the upper part is always pale green, only with purple margins.
The total height of this spathe was 8.5 cm. |
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| On the second day it opened a little more yet. |
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The appendix is sessile, thin and purple.
The lower spathe interior is also purple. | The male flowers are dark red, the female flowers yellow-green,
the stigmata whitish with purple margins. |
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| all photos in this page © Marek Argent |
