Aroids (the family Araceae)

[bulborum]

Very nice pictures Arnold
good details

R

[ArnoldT]

Roland, Thanks.

I've heard of two form of this one pleasantly scent and the other badly scented.

I have the badly scented variety.

[ThomasB]

Arisaema sikokianum is the first one to flower here. I love it! 

[Tony Willis]

Arum pictum a really foul smelling one in flower now

[fredg]

Arum pictum a really foul smelling one in flower now

A reminder to me to stay with the Arisaema... they're ok on the nostrils

[Angelo Porcelli]

Here a photo for a question. I got this from Janis Ruksans as Arum gratum, but although it matches the description of the species in size and shape, it doesn't for the colour, which should be ' a washed purple' according to Boyce.
Janis, your comment is appreciated, if you read this

[Tony Willis]

Angelo I see your remarks regarding the colour of Arum gratum and would say that I had a very large collection of wild collected species which I swapped with numerous 'experts' .I just called them sp. and pictures came back with all sorts of names attached. I would think yours fall within the natural variation of colour. They seem as confused as biarums.

Here is an Arum dioscoridis in flower today.

[ronm]

Thats a stunner Tony.

[Tony Willis]

a couple more in flower

Arum balansanum this is only about 10cms tall

Arum dioscoridis

[ronm]

Very special Tony, 

Are these perfumed also?

[Tony Willis]

Very special Tony, 

Are these perfumed also?

I think the dioscoridis is attractive if you are a fly!! The balansanum I cannot detect anything.

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Tony,
I have tried Arum dioscoridis a couple of times in the garden but lost it through the winter. Are yours in pots and under cover in the winter?
I really like these and Dranunculus vulgaris but lost that in the same way also.

Graham

[arilnut]

Here is my dioscoridis

John B

[Tony Willis]

Hi Tony,
I have tried Arum dioscoridis a couple of times in the garden but lost it through the winter. Are yours in pots and under cover in the winter?
I really like these and Dranunculus vulgaris but lost that in the same way also.

Graham

Graham

all my own collected species are in pots, I lose the labels in the garden but over the years I have made the mistake of planting spares in the garden and now they are a terrible weed and we are trying to get rid of them with glycophosphate.(same with podophyllum!!) They are impossible to dig out and also self seed. The dracunculus has also been hardy in the garden for about 20 years . The problem I faced was the winter of 2011 was very hard and the ones in pots got frozen and I had a lot of losses.

One from Lake abant in NW Turkey

[Graham Catlow]

Thanks Tony,
The conditions I put them in mustn't have been just right, which clearly isn't a problem for you.
As Maggi said in the thread on my Podophylum delavayi which I have coming up all over a raised bed 'one man's weed is another man's flower'!
Graham