3464 x 5196 px | 29,3 x 44 cm | 11,5 x 17,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
17. Juli 2016
Ort:
Sorrento Italy
Weitere Informationen:
Araceae, Arum, Arum Maculatum, botanic, botanical, botanicals, botanics, botany, cuckoo pint, cuckoo pints, Cuckoopint, flower, flowers, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, lordsandladies, plant, plants. Arum or Cuckoo Pint or Italian Lords-and-Ladies Arum Italicum poisonous plant. colorful berries, Colorful foliage, Cut Flowers., groundcovers, Mass Plantings, Perennials | Tagged Arum, Arum italicum, autumn berries, autumn color, autumn interest, calcium oxalate, Cuckoo Pint, Finnerty Gardens, greenish flowers, Italian Arum, Italian Lords and Ladies, Lords and Ladies plant, orange berries, spathes/spadix plants, white flowers, winter berries, Winter color, winter foliage, winter groundcover, winter interest. Arum italicum has a life cycle which backwards compared to most plants we are familiar with. Here the leaves are produced every autumn and winter over into the spring, they area undamaged by frosts. In spring Cuckoo Pint flowers are produced and the foliage later withers leaving the elongating floral stems with the seed developing on it. As the seed is almost is ripe new leaves unfurl in late autumn and a new cycle begins again. The seed ripens and is sown in the winter as it has a short viability and does not tolerate drying out at all therefore the time of ripening guarantees the best chance of germination. Arum Italicum is a fairly widespread plant and grows wild in southern England most of southern Europe, Northern Africa and into Asia Minor. It is an ancient plant and representations are seen painted on the walls of the Temple of Amun at Karnak in the ancient capital of Thebes in Egypt, the plants are not native to that area. During the 16th century the roots of Arums where boiled and powdered to produce a white starch which was used to stiffen collars and ruffles of the elaborate clothing of the times. Later the same powder was added to cosmetics called Cyprus powder which was used for the skin in Paris. The thick gummy sap.
