Irish wildflowers

Lords-and-Ladies, Cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum, Chluas chaoin
Photographs: Co. Cork

Lords-and-Ladies / Cuckoo-pint / Arum
Arum maculatum
Cluas chaoin
Family: Araceae

Flowering: March-May. Fruiting: July-August. Perennial. Native.

Tiny flowers in dense brown or purplish spike (spadix) enclosed in sheath (spathe). Upper part forming hood. Spathe yellowish-cream, spotted or streaked with purple. Fruiting spike with poisonous orange/red berries. Long-stalked, hairless, arrow-triangular shaped leaves, sometimes with purplish-black blotches. Net-veined. Height: 30-50 cm.

Found in woods and hedgebanks on rich, calciferous soils.

Similar: Italian Lords-and-ladies, A. Italicum ssp. italicum.
White-veined leaves and yellow spathe. Introduced.

Lords-and-Ladies, Cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum, Chluas chaoin

Lords-and-Ladies, Cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum, Chluas chaoin
Lords-and-Ladies / Cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum, Chluas chaoin

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