Aroids (the family Araceae)

[Maggi Young]

What a very attractive form.  It looks like a plant of  B. tenuifolium I've seen pix of from Sicily with similar, though not as pretty, colouring - and I think it's a variable plant.
I wish I knew more about these plants.

[BULBISSIME]

You're right Maggy, not easy to name them as they are very variable.
You have to cut the 'flower' and to have a look inside.

here is what a friend of mine thinks to be Biarum kotschy, but it's from south Syria, where it's not supposed to grow …??

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

An extraordinary event has just happened at Lyon's BG which holds an important aroids collection: the flowering of DRACONTIUM SPITTIERI. This species which is extremely rare in cultivation is native to Costa Rica. The tuber has been offered by the Botanic faculty of VIENNA in 2011. It's only the second time it flowers in Europe ( first one in VIENNA ). The tuber ( 14-20cm diameter ) produces a single umbrella like leaf towering at 2-4m high. The inflorescence is a spathe which can be 1,50-2m high and lasts not very long.
some pictures of this unusual plant for the aroids entusiasts.
JP

[BULBISSIME]

Thank you Jean Patrick for sharing this pictures ! Great flower, congratulations to the team 

[Maggi Young]

Magnificent!
Can you imagine the excitement of first coming upon such a plant in the wild?!!   

[K-D Keller]

A sweet scent in the greenhouse. Arum creticum is blooming.

[fermi de Sousa]

Biarum davisii time now   

and 6 months later it's flowering here
cheers
fermi

[emma T]

Found this one growing wild in the far reaches of the wilds of the grounds here .

[K-D Keller]

Dracunculus vulgaris was in flower last week.
Amorphophallus konjac and Dracunculus canariensis are in flower now.

Amorphophallus konjac and Dracunculus vulgaris are aroid like ugly stinkers.
Dracunculus canariensis has a fresh sweet lemon like smell. Very pleasant. 

[Oron Peri]

Helicodiceros muscivorus is in bloom since yesterday, luckily far enough from the house...

[Oron Peri]

The two late spring flowering species this morning;

Biarum tenuifolium ssp. zelebori and B. ditschianum [not open completely yet]

[Maggi Young]

Paul Barney of Edulis Plants has 'tweeted' this photo of an Arisaema  he collected some years ago in Mizoram.
Paul writes that Pascal B. has said he doesn't know of any like this in India -  so it may well be a new species.

[ThomasB]

A. fimbriatum looks at least similar.

[fermi de Sousa]

Marcus Harvey has written about finding different colour forms of "Dragon Lily in Crete" on his website - here's a link:
http://hillviewrareplants.com.au/ramblings/scents-and-sensibilities-the-dragon-lily-of-crete
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

Arisaema candidissimum

Why do the spathes always face the wrong direction.