Dragon Arum

Sun Exposure: full sun Flower Color: burgundy Level of Care: easy

We call this the 'evil calla' due to its dark appearance and unpleasant fragrance. All in all a striking although bizarre plant growing up to 3 feet tall, the flower a spaethe up to 18 inches long and over 6 inches wide of deep, maroon-purple from which protrudes a long, blackish-red spadix. Handsome lobed foliage marbled and spotted with dark purple fans out around the thick, blotched stem of the flower spike. Flowers in early to midsummer followed by scarlet berries in lare summer to early fall.