Arisaema candidissimum

Today's the day ………………….. for a mystery

We're very lucky that when we go to Edinburgh, we can stay with brother Ron and Margaret.  It's very much a home from home - and there's always something new to see in their lovely big garden.  This time, we were taken to see a mystery plant that Ron had been given by a friend last year.  He was handed just a corm and told to plant it and then to wait and see what grew.  So that's what he did - and the exotic, striped, arum-lily sort of plant above is what appeared.

It's an Arisaema candidissimum, commonly known as the 'striped cobra lily' or 'Chinese Jack-in-the-pulpit' and is native to Western China.  It varies in colour, typically being white, often pinkish or greenish white or cream, with stripes which are green on the outside and pink on the inside. It grows in oak forests and shrubby valleys, at altitudes of between 7,000 - 10,000 ft.

It was a very fine-looking plant and I'm hoping it does really well in Ron's garden - so that eventually, he might have a corm to spare …………………...