Cuckoo Pint

Cuckoo Pint (Arum) - Tuberous rooted plants of distinct form; some are hardy. They thrive best in warm borders and about the sunny side of garden walls. Some nine or ten kinds are found in S. Europe. They have, when in bloom, a very offensive odour.

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Dragon's Mouth

Dragons Mouth (Arum Crinitum) - In flower this is very grotesque, from the singular shape of its broad speckled spathe. The leaves are cut into deep segments, and the leaf-stalks overlapping each other, from a sort of spurious stem 1 foot or 14 inches high, marbled and spotted with purplish-black. Warm borders, fringes of shrubberies, or beds of the smaller subtropical plants suit it best. Division of tubers.

Arum Dracunculus

Arum Dracunculus - ragons, Snake Plant), from S. Europe, attains a height of 2 to 3 feet; the leaves large; the stalks and stem of a fleshy color, deeply mottled with black. It loves best a corner to itself in sandy loam at the foot of a south wall. Has a disagreeable odour. Division.

Arum Italicum

Arum Italicum - talian Arum) is larger than our native Arum; the veins blotched with yellow. As the leaves come very early in the season, they are attractive. In the autumn, when they have died away, the clusters of scarlet berries, on footstalks 10 inches or 12 inches long, are showy.