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Paghat's Garden: Arisaema tosaense
... at the petiole you can see this skin actually consists of closely wrapped cataphils which are specialized false leaves. The spadix or "Jack" is a stubby fellow who stands upright inside the spathe, nearly but not quite hidden. Continue to: Snow Rice-cake Japanese Jack-in-the-Pulpit (A. ...
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Paghat's Garden: Arisaema triphyllum ssp triphyllum
... the spathe permitting the pollinator to escape after travelling through the spathe getting pollen all over itself. The bottom of the female spathe has no exit, trapping the pollinator & forcing it to wander about inside the spathe pollinating all the flowers on the jack. The ...
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Paghat's Garden: Arisarum proboscideum
... the gnats lay their eggs in the mouse tail. These eggs hatch but the larvae fail to develop, having no actual fungus to eat. Possibly the fly larvae, starving while in pursuit of food inside the spathe, are also needed for full pollination. If the mouse plant happens to gain any degree of nutrient from the eggs & the dead ...
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Paghat's Garden: Arum italicum ssp italicum var marmoratum 'Silver Shield'
... a broad short winter clump. The flower spathe is as large as the others in May. When the spadix inside the spathe is pollinated, the leaves die back, the spathe fades & peals away, leaving a green corncob of seeds standing like a little sentinal, turning redder & redder through summer & often still standing there in autumn. Eventually the stalk softens & the ...
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Paghat's Garden: Arisaema griffithii
... richly maroon-striped spathe with its nose coiled in on itself, so that it is just about impossible to look inside the pulpit to see the nearly black spadix or jack. The leaves form a wrinkly umbrella of two large leaves, two feet above the ground, sheltering the spathe. A third partially developed ...
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Paghat's Garden: Arisaema hachijoense
... would call it a mottled snakeskin appearance. The green spathe has faint yellow-green striping, & the little "Jack" inside keeps his head upright just under the hood. The spathe's hood has a short point that upturns, like a gopher snake's pug nose, which is the trait ...
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Paghat's Garden: Arisaema nepenthoides
... mythology has much the same meaning as the Indic cobras of divine slumber & divine awakening. The mouth of the spathe of A. nepenthoides is very open for an inside view & to assess the sex of the flower. A plant as a whole us not of two specific sexes, but the flower ...
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Paghat's Garden: Arisaema triphyllum ssp pusillum
... The bloom was fatter & stubbier than triphyllum triphyllum. It is green with yellow-green stripes, & a pure green jack inside the pulpit, lacking the purple of our regular American pulpits. Nor does the triphyllum pusillum spathe bend at the top of the hood nearly as ...
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Jack in the Pulpits: Arisaema triphyllum
... , with the spathe still a little horn at the foot of the stem. A green flower is rising up among the maturing leaves! Oh how lovely & stripey is this spathe. It has no purplish coloration inside the hood as do all the other ...
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