What's Blooming Now--TOW
Antennaria@aol.com (Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:48:13 PDT)

One plant that has flowered well this spring is the Japanese Arisaema
kishidae. The cobra-like spathes appear before the leaves above snake-skin mottled
leaf sheathes; the spathes are translucent coppery-brown, veined whitish,
appearing somber blackish-brown from the backside. The emerging foliage is near
black in color, opening up to a lovely green, strongly mottled with silver.
This is a smallish species, about 12"-16" tall. The PBS wiki page below has
photos showing three aspects of this fine plant in early flower.
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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