Arisaema ringens

This special Arisaema tells the plant story in the most graceful way...: in spring, the growing tips emerge from the ground as grey-pink, speckled spears, which soon burst open to reveal the (then still) wrinkled leaves and flowers. The leaves grow into broad three-part umbrellas, hiding the precious floral treasure, but you can spy on it from the side: the tubular flowers have a beautiful rolled spathe with a deep brown to black spadix at the turning point. The tubes are beautifully green to brownish-white striped. A single corm produces less conspicuous, green flowers. After flowering, the inflorescence develops thick clusters of orange-red berries, signalling the start of autumn...

Names:
Latin: Arisaema ringens
Dutch: Krul-Cobralelie
English: Jack-in-the-pulpit