Arisaema maximowiczii Sun to Shade each highlighted with a narrow

each highlighted with a narrow creamy yellow streak in the center of each leaf

boreale has only one (sometimes two) 18" wide

since this poor plant's identity has been batted around by taxonomists more than a tennis ball on Wimbledon's Centre Court

starting from the stem and radiating outward

large marble-sized

Arisaema maximowiczii Sun to Shade each highlighted with a narrowFrom the Kyushu Mountains of Japan, this namesake of the 19th century Russian botanist, Carl Johann Maximowicz, is an elegant cobra lily with a 2' tall dark purple based stem. Each plant bears a ten leaflet leaf to the side of the main stem. The hood (spathe) is green and white striped and ends as a long thread hanging over the pitcher which houses the green spadix (sex organ).