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Quart Pot
One of the most sought-after Jack-in-the-Pulpits with simple large leaves and the flowers of sweetly scented virginal white. I'm not sure I can use 'virginal white' to describe a flower sporting a spadix but I guess eventually the twain shall meet. The spadix is the appendage inside the flower or spathe if you want to get botanical. This is one of the latest of the Arisaemas to poke its nose out in the spring and we invariably start worrying about it and just as we are about to do exploratory troweling, we notice growth buds breaking the surface. These are nice bulbs which probably need another year to flower. This species increases beautifully from offsets so in a few years you will have a nice little grouping.