General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Herb/Forb
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| Life cycle: |
Perennial
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| Fruit: |
Other: Berries orange-red when ripe.
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| Underground structures: |
Tuber
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| Propagation: Seeds: |
Other info: Remove seeds from berry which contains chemicals that inhibit germination.
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| Propagation: Other methods: |
Offsets
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| Miscellaneous: |
Goes Dormant
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- Arum cyrenaicum x concinnatum
Posted by
JRsbugs (Near Lincoln UK) on Dec 19, 2011 10:00 AM concerning plant:
This is very hardy and a very easy Arum to grow in the UK. I had to move it from the first location I had planted it in which was under the north side of a spreading Fatsia japonica. The original bulb had made several more smaller bulbs, I worried that moving it might be the end of it as it was in growth which is a good thing but some Arums can be difficult. In its present west facing location it gets some shade and sun, I planted it with plenty of leafy compost and it never looked back. The same year I moved it in 2009 the leaves and spathe grew even bigger. In 2010 it produced two spathes. The harsh winter of 2010/11 in the UK with temperatures below freezing continually for 7 weeks, dipping to -17C did not kill it. The leaves grow over winter and will survive frost.
This is a natural hybrid which originally was found in one of only three small populations of A. cyrenaicum in Crete.
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