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Arum maculatum   Listen
Arum maculatum

noun
1.
Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum.  Synonyms: cuckoopint, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies.






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"Arum maculatum" Quotes from Famous Books



... Aristolochia they never escape,—a statement which I could not believe, as in this case the insects would not aid in the cross-fertilisation of the plant; and this statement has now been shown by Hildebrand to be erroneous. As the spathes of Arum maculatum are furnished with filaments apparently adapted to prevent the exit of insects, they resemble in this respect the flowers of Aristolochia; and on examining several spathes, from thirty to sixty minute Diptera belonging to three species were found in some ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin

... crawl over the spadix. But here is no trap to catch the tiny benefactors such as is set by wicked Jack-in-the-pulpit, or the skunk-cabbage, or another cousin, a still more terrible executioner, the cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum) of Europe. ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan



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