Arum italicum
Common name: Italian arum, Italian lords and ladies
Family: Araceae
Leaf: Arrowhead-shaped, long-petioled, glossy, grayish-green leaves with pale green midribs are 8-12" long. Leaves emerge in autumn and persist through the winter, remaining evergreen in warmer winter climates. They die back in the summer. Poisonous.
Flowers: produced in spring, each flower sheath-like, with a light green spathe (bract), which subtends and partially envelops the spadix like a python or a hood. Poisonous.
Fruit: bright orange red berries in summer, at a time when all the leaves and spathe have died back. Very showy. Poisonous.
Habit: Herbaceous spreading perennial; Form: low, mounding
Culture: Hardy in USDA zones 5-9. Best grown in medium moisture, humusy, rich soils in part shade to full shade. Not reliably winter hardy in USDA zone 5, where it should be planted in a protected location.New leaves emerge in autumn are are evergreen in the warmer winter climates. In the colder winter climates, the leaves die back in winter, emerging in early spring. In all climates, foliage goes dormant in the heat of the summer.
Uses: woodland gardens and shaded border areas
Origin: Southern and Western Europe
Flowers: produced in spring, each flower sheath-like, with a light green spathe (bract), which subtends and partially envelops the spadix like a python or a hood. Poisonous.
Fruit: bright orange red berries in summer, at a time when all the leaves and spathe have died back. Very showy. Poisonous.
Habit: Herbaceous spreading perennial; Form: low, mounding
Culture: Hardy in USDA zones 5-9. Best grown in medium moisture, humusy, rich soils in part shade to full shade. Not reliably winter hardy in USDA zone 5, where it should be planted in a protected location.New leaves emerge in autumn are are evergreen in the warmer winter climates. In the colder winter climates, the leaves die back in winter, emerging in early spring. In all climates, foliage goes dormant in the heat of the summer.
Uses: woodland gardens and shaded border areas
Origin: Southern and Western Europe
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| some cultivars keep their foliage when in fruit |
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