Dear All; Ok here goes. Arum italicum is very easy here. I grow it in full sun and partial shade, but it does best in full sun. It blooms regularly, sets copious seed and self sows regularly. In really hard winters the foliage is brutalized, but more develops in spring. If the winter is milder (not below 0F for long), the new leaves can be quite large and gorgeous. As big or bigger is the form known as 'Chameleon'. The true cv (a division) is still small, but older seedlings are even larger than typical and have a wonderful and variable range of leaf forms and patterns. I much prefer any of these to the best silver-veined forms of typical. I also grow the green form and ssp albispathum and neglectum. Some 'Chameleon' are almost all silver with slight grey-green splashes or edging. Really spectacular. Some literature suggests this is a hybrid, but the 'bible (The Genus Arum by Peter Boyce, Kew) finds it pure A italicum. I try as many Arum as I can and grow all the hardy ones I can. Arum maculatum does OK in sun, but prefers some more shade. It varies from solid green to having rows of dark spots and sometimes these spots are 'embedded' in the leaf surface. There is a form known as 'Painted Lady' with variegated foliage I have yet to actually acquire (I have received tubers with this name, but without this variegation). Arum nigrum is also a favorite here because of its sultry 'black' flowers(spathes). The foliage is solid green and it seeds around a bit too, but it took a long time to settle down and start blooming. There's more, but I won't go on. Then there's the related aroids- Dracunculus (the largest got to near 5 ft this year), Typhonium (including Sauromatum), Arisaema, Biarum, Pinellia ( a favorite) and probably another one or two genera. Most all Arum are going or totally dormant with fruiting spikes beginning to color. best Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 E-fax 419-781-8594 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +