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Italian Lords-and-ladies, Arum italicum subsp italicum
Photographs: Gougane Barra, Co. Cork

Italian Lords-and-ladies
Arum italicum subsp. italicum (garden form)
Cluas chaoin riabhach
Family: Araceae

Flowering: June. Fruiting: August-September. Introduced.

The yellow-green spathe bends forward when mature and the upper part of the spadix is bright yellow. Followed by poisonous scarlet berries. Leaves are shiny, bright green and with cream-white veins. A perennial rhizomatus plant that can spread widely from root fragments.

An occasional garden escape and often found where garden waste has been dumped. Also on hedgebanks, roadsides and by rivers

Similar: Lords-and-ladies, A. maculatum

Italian Lords-and-ladies, Arum italicum subsp italicum

Italian Lords-and-ladies, Arum italicum subsp italicum
Italian Lords-and-ladies, Arum italicum subsp. italicum, Cluas chaoin riabhach

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