Arisaema 2009

[Gunilla]

Eric, I really like your A. franchetianum, very nice and different  .

Oleg, lovely pictures.   Arisaema costatum sure have a long and twisted tongue   
Is that an Eucomis with dark leaves in the background on your second picture?

Flowering in my garden now.

Arisaema ciliatum var liubaense (not sure about the var. liubaense part)
Arisaema triphyllum
Arisaema nepenthoides
Arisaema consanguineum slowly crawling out

[olegKon]

Gunilla, your plants are wonderful at any stage of their development. It's a Eucomis on the background: "Sparcling Burgundy" (not very robust this year.

[Johan Nilson]

Thank you Robin for a great thread. 

Great pictures everybody and complements to all of you who manage to grow them so well.

Robin, your A, dahaiense looks fantastic.  'The Moder plant', are they all individual plants or are they bulking up like that? does it set seed for you?


I have just return from a trip to north east Sikkim in India where I was able to get some pictures of Arisaemas growing in the wild.


A. speciosum
A. speciosum
A. utile
A. utile
A. propinquum
A. propinquum
A. propinquum
A. nepenthoides
A. nepenthoides (dubbel)
A. nepenthoides (dubbel)

[Maggi Young]

Hello, Johan! Good to see these photos... thanks for sharing them with us. 

[Johan Nilson]

Hi Maggi,

Thanks!

Here is some moore:

1 A. jaquemonthii
2 A. jaquemonthii
3 A. concinnum
4 A. griffithii (clump)
5 A. griffithii (big)
6 A. consanguineum
7 A. elephas
8 A. elephas (clump)
9 A. elephas (clump)

[Gunilla]

Wonderful photos, Johan

[Lesley Cox]

What a treat to see them in the wild They look very sinister in such a setting and on what seemed to be a dull, dark day.

[WimB]

Very nice pictures of very nice plants, Johan. Thanks for showing them.

[David Shaw]

They look so much better in the wild, don't they? Then, I suppose most plants do.

[David Shaw]

I have this plant as Arisaema franchetianum but the inflorescence is nothing like the real thing. Can any of the Arisaema experts suggest what it might be - a form of candidissimum, perhaps?
The height to the top of the inflorescence is 26cm and this opened before the leaf. The petiole originates from the tuber and the leaf itself is 15cm long.

[Paul T]

David,

I'd be thinking candidissimum form or hybrid. Very dark flower for straight species, but if white forms can exist then dark forms likely can as well.

Johan,

Stunning pics.  The griffithii is just amazing.  A species I very much want to grow and flower, as I love every pic I have seen of it.  The flowers just look so overdone!    Thanks for the pics.

[Lesley Cox]

Certainly no expert David, But I'd say a form of candidissimum, and a very good one with deep colour and a nice, wide open spathe. The foliage looks right too.

[Lesley Cox]

Funny, I thought the second pic was actually a different species!!

[Afloden]

David: The plant is A. lichiangense, a close relative of candidissimum and fargesii.

 Johan, Did you see any Polygonatum in Sikkim?

 Aaron Floden
 Knoxville, TN
 UT Herbarium

[David Shaw]

Thank you, Aaron, I can go along with that name. The description seems to match the plant.
Lesley, the two photographs were taken at different times with the sun in different postions. After I downloaded the first set of pictures I did not like the one of the whole plant so went back out to take another - the wonders of digital cameras. I would say that the darker colouring of the inflorescence picture is more true than in the other.