Arisaema candidissimum
W. W. Smith 1917
A medium size species. It belongs to the section
Franchetiana
.
2003
It's easy to recognize by its tubers,
because they're pink.
A night before the first bloom.
The inflorescence appears before the leaf or together with it. Its smell resembles roses.
Side view.
The male flowers.
Two weeks after the bloom it puts up the leaf.
Next week it's fully developed. 30x30 cm.
2005
In 2004 it didn't bloom, in 2005 it started in the middle of June.
Like in 2003, it the inflorescence had only male flowers.
Link to
The IAS:
A. candidissimum
Link to
Roy Herold's
Arisaema candidissimum
.
Link to
Krzysztof Kozminski's page on
A. candidissimum
.
page created on 2003-04-08
last modified on 2006-04-06