Zantedeschia aethiopica

(Linnaeus) Spreng. 1826

It doesn't actually come from Ethiopia, but from the South Africa.
Grows wild at swamps drying in summer, in culture it should also be dormant in summer months.
Z. aethiopica is 40-70 cm tall with inflorescence.

Views of a blooming plant.
The scent is wonderful.	The spadix isn't as yellow as 'Crowborough'.
An inflorescence with a malformed spadix.

	<= The leaf blade can be 15 to 30 cm in height. The rhizome. =>
	Z. aethiopica can be cultivated in gardens in Poland. Yet it sends the leaves forth in the late May. And blooms rarely. Sometimes in October it does. This one was growing outdoors three years. The winter of 2002/2003 has killed it.
	Zantedeschia aethiopica on a South-African coin.

Link to Krzysztof Kozminski page on Z. aethiopica. Link to Philippe Faucon's Desert-Tropicals Z. aethopica.