Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8:2 (1768).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Italian cuckoo-pint, Italian arum, Aarons rod.

Description:
Erect glabrous perennial, to 50 cm high; tuber depressed-globular, 3-4 cm diam.; autumn leaves small, hastate, uniformly green, later leaves long-petiolate, sagittate, white-patterned above the large veins, c. 15 cm long.

Spathe 20-30 cm long, erect, a pale greenish-yellow; fruit c. 1 cm diam., fleshy, scarlet, the fruiting spike standing naked and showy after the leaves have withered.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, SL.   Native to southern Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Uses: Widely grown as a garden ornamental.

Author: Not yet available