Aroids (the family Araceae)

[ArnoldT]

Funny thing it was purchased as something else.  I have to send a note to the nursery I purchased it from.  Hopefully they won't ask for more money.

Arnold

[Pascal B]

Arnold, as what did you buy it then?

[ArnoldT]

Pascal:

I purchased it as  Arisaema griffithii.

Arnold

[Pascal B]

Pascal:

I purchased it as  Arisaema griffithii.

Arnold

  That is a big difference, these 2 species have absolutely nothing in common, the tubers are very different. Well, not a bad buy I would say, ehimense is much more rare in cultivation and has a higher pricetag.....

[ArnoldT]

Pascal:


I was thinking that when I let the nursery know they may ask for an additional payment.

Arnold

[fredg]

This Arisaema nepenthoides has been open since the 23rd April and only now starting to develop leaves.
It is strange just to see the flower sitting on the end of a bare stem.

I love the mottling of both stem and flower.

I did enter a small part of this photo in 'Puzzles' but no one seems to have wanted to play. 
(There was a reasonable clue too)

[TheOnionMan]

This Arisaema nepenthoides has been open since the 23rd April and only now starting to develop leaves.
It is strange just to see the flower sitting on the end of a bare stem.

I love the mottling of both stem and flower.

I did enter a small part of this photo in 'Puzzles' but no one seems to have wanted to play. 
(There was a reasonable clue too)

Fantastic, and very snake like in form and in markings, do you speak parseltongue to it to encourage good growth   Do you have a photo showing the flower just sitting atop a naked stem... would like to see it.  Does the flower have any scent or odor?

I thought the puzzle suggestion that it was burnt pita bread was a reasonable suggestion

[Pascal B]

I did enter a small part of this photo in 'Puzzles' but no one seems to have wanted to play. 
(There was a reasonable clue too)

Even if you put a picture of the entire flower in the puzzle it still could not be solved because without a picture of the leaves it could have been the related A. wattii too.....

A. nepenthoides has 5-7 (-9) leaflets, wattii 3 with the 2 lateral leaflets lobed on the outside. Flowerwise they are pretty much comparable having the same type of mottling, flower shape and extent of auricles. Both also have forms flowering with the leaves and without the leaves. Seeing a colony of "naked"  flowering nepenthoides though is a terrific sight, just like an army of meerkats standing guard...

[fredg]

Do you have a photo showing the flower just sitting atop a naked stem... would like to see it.  Does the flower have any scent or odor?

Mark,
I hadn't taken a photo of the whole stem so I just did.
The leaves are just breaking out.

I have yet to detect an odour from any Arisaema

Even if you put a picture of the entire flower in the puzzle it still could not be solved because without a picture of the leaves it could have been the related A. wattii too.....

Pascal,
Arisaema as an answer would have sufficed.

[TheOnionMan]

Mark,
I hadn't taken a photo of the whole stem so I just did.
The leaves are just breaking out.
I have yet to detect an odour from any Arisaema

That is SUPER AWESOME!!! Thanks for taking the time to shoot a new pic and post it here.

Regarding odor, having no odor is better I suppose.  The hybrid I posted earlier in this thread of A. amurense x tashiroi stinks like a wet dog, just like its parent, a robust A. amurense form.  These are the only Arisaema I have noticed any odor on.

[fredg]

The hybrid I posted earlier in this thread of A. amurense x tashiroi stinks like a wet dog, just like its parent, a robust A. amurense form.

Mark,
Thanks for the tip, I know to give A.amurense and it's hybrids a miss now 

[Pascal B]

Pascal,
Arisaema as an answer would have sufficed.

Granted, that was already a very tough challenge...

[fredg]

Granted, that was already a very tough challenge...

That would have been a rum answer Maggi 

Every little helps 

[Maggi Young]

Ooh! .... well, yes, every little does help but some of us need more of a clue than others, eh?!! 

 Looking back at the puzzle I was quite thrown by the angle.... sneaky trick that!

[fredg]

  Sneaky is good in puzzles 

Otherwise it's not mich of a puzzle