Eastern arum

Family Araceae. Grows in shady forests of Central and Southern Europe, Ukraine, Crimea, Caucasus.

Tuber globose-flattened, with a depression in the middle from which the leaves and flower stalk emerge. Leaves are petiolate, at the base enclosed by scaly sheaths of the outer scaly leaves. The blade equals the petiole or is shorter than it, broadly spear-shaped to arrow-shaped (sagittate), up to 7 cm long, its lateral lobes up to 4.5 cm. Flower stalk longer than the leaf petioles. Spathe 7-10 cm with a white-green tube and a purple limb. The appendix of the spadix is dark purple. Plant height 15 - 25 cm. Requires moist soil. Cold-hardy. The rhizome is poisonous when raw. In cultivation since 1820.