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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Stephen Vella on May 13, 2013, 12:20:43 AM

Title: Arisaema ident
Post by: Stephen Vella on May 13, 2013, 12:20:43 AM

Hello,

Hope somebody may be able to identify this Arisaema. Came to me as sazansoo but the leaves dont match as they are more dissected, this ones looks trifoliate.

I think it maybe backii but i dont have a pick to conform.  Does anyone have a pick of one or both to compare or is it something else?

cheers
Stephen

Title: Re: Arisaema ident
Post by: Ezeiza on May 13, 2013, 02:17:44 AM

Looks like a very fine form of sikokianum.

Title: Re: Arisaema ident
Post by: Botanica on May 13, 2013, 07:29:22 PM

[Wrongly listed in some books as a synonym of A. sikokianum, this blooms 3 weeks later here. The spadix is not bulbous, and the purple spathe hood droops way down over the tube. Name is from "zazen", Japanese Buddhist meditation, as the flower recalls a bowed monk meditating. Hard to find. Good garden plant. Mid-spring. Rhymes with "ma can sew".]

>> From >> http://www.shikoku-garden.com/lists/Arisaema%20list06.htm (http://www.shikoku-garden.com/lists/Arisaema%20list06.htm)

Title: Re: Arisaema ident
Post by: Stephen Vella on May 14, 2013, 05:30:25 AM

thanks Botanica..

Im thinking its A sazansoo as I look into it more, trying to compare it with pictures and discriptions but the spathe tends to stand up high which is differant, maybe variable in the species.

cheers