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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Growing -- Easy ■ Moderate ■ and Challenging ■

Backlog for Fresh Roots ♦

Hardiness - To -5°C җ To -10°C җ җ Fully Hardy җ җ җ

Needs Shady Position ☻ Sunny Position ☻ Water Loving ♥