[pbs] Re: What's Blooming Now--TOW
Antennaria at aol.com
Antennaria at aol.com
Mon Apr 26 22:48:13 EDT 2004
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://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/index.php/Arisaema
Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria at aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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