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Arum
''Arum'' is a genus of plants in the Araceae family; they are native to Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region. Frequently called arum lilies, they are not closely related to the true lilies ''Lilium''. Plants in the closely related genus '' Zantedeschia'' are also called 'arum lilies'. They are rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial plants growing to 20–60 cm tall, with sagittate (arrowhead-shaped) leaves 10–55 cm long. The flowers are produced in a spadix, surrounded by a 10–40 cm long, distinctively coloured spathe, which may be white, yellow, brown, or purple. Some species are scented, others not. The fruit is a cluster of bright orange or red berries. All parts of the plants, including the berries, are poisonous as they contain needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate. In spite of this, the plant has a history of culinary use among Arab peasants in Palestine who leached t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Concinnatum
''Arum concinnatum'', commonly known as the Crete arum, is a flowering plant species in the family Araceae. Habitat ''Arum concinnatum'' occurs in a variety of habitats including ditches, wet areas and ''Olea europaea'' groves from sea level to 350 meters of altitude. The species occurs from the southern tip of the Peloponnese to south-western Turkey, as well as most eastern Mediterranean islands. Taxonomy Within the genus ''Arum'', it belongs to subgenus ''Arum'' and section ''Arum''. The species is related to ''Arum italicum'', with which it shares similar horizontally-oriented rhizomatous tubers and hexaploid chromosome counts (2n = 84). ''A. concinnatum'' is often incorrectly called ''Arum byzantinum'' in horticulture. However, the true ''Arum byzantinum, A. byzantinum'' is a smaller diploid species from NW Turkey with small, purple spadix appendices. Gallery Arum concinnatum - Icones Aroidearum pl. 39 (1857).jpg, Illustration Arum concinnatum RF.jpg, Whole plant Arum c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Palaestinum
''Arum palaestinum'' is a species of flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the genus ''Arum'' and the family Araceae. It is also known as black calla, Solomon's lily, priest's hood, noo'ah loof and kardi. Native to the Mediterranean Basin, it is employed in the Middle East for culinary and medicinal purposes. Description A perennial plant, ''Arum palaestinum'' grows up to high. It blooms between the months of March and April, by which time the plant is easily recognized by its dark purplish-black Spadix (botany), spadix enclosed by a reddish-brown spathe. The leaves are light green, narrow, and upright with a purplish-black color. The root is tuberous. By relative inflorescence height, ''Arum'' species are divided into "cryptic" species, whose inflorescences are borne on a short peduncle amid or below the leaves, and "flag" species, whose inflorescences are above leaf level at the end of long peduncles. ''A. palaestinum'' is a cryptic species. Like other members of the gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Cylindraceum
''Arum cylindraceum'' is a woodland plant species of the family Araceae. It is found in most of Europe except the UK, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and Scandinavia (although it is found in Denmark), and in Turkey. It is also missing in northwestern France and southern Italy. Description The plain green leaves of ''A. cylindraceum'' appear in early spring (late March–early May) followed by the flowers borne on a poker-shaped inflorescence called a spadix, which is partially enclosed in a grass-green spathe or leaf-like hood. The flowers are hidden from sight, clustered at the base of the spadix with a ring of female flowers at the bottom and a ring of male flowers above them. Above the male flowers is a ring of hairs forming an insect trap. Insects are attracted to the spadix by its faecal odour and a temperature warmer than the ambient temperature. The insects are trapped beneath the ring of hairs and are dusted with pollen by the male flowers before escaping and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Cyrenaicum
''Arum cyrenaicum'' is a woodland plant species of the family Araceae. It has a disjunct distribution, being found in Greece and in Libya, where it has seen limited use as a foraged root and leaf vegetable. Description It has discoid tubers with dimensions × .Salih & Abdulrraziq 2024. Petioles are dark green and long. Leaves usually number 4; individual simple, with hastate or sagittate blade morphology and a sharp apex × . The central vein is clear, and veins are reticulate-pinnate. Inflorescence bisexual and monoecious. Spathe up to long, coiled at the bottom, widening at the middle and sharp at the top; laminate, lanceolate, acuminate, purple. Spathe one third shorter than spadix. Spadix long but indistinctly shaped, dung-scented. Spadix dark purple at the edges, pale green at the middle. The female flowers are below the male flowers on the lower part of the spadix, with between them. Club elongate, conical, obtuse, almost prostrately thickened from the stem, or m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Creticum
''Arum creticum'', the Cretan arum, is a species in of flowering plant in the family ''Araceae''. It is native to the Greek island of Crete (Kriti), the Eastern Aegean Islands, and southwestern Turkey. This semi-evergreen clump-forming tuberous perennial has large arrow-shaped leaves. Erect folded-back spathes of fragrant yellow or cream appear in spring, with longer narrow spadices of a darker yellow. The flowers are followed in autumn by clusters of red or orange fruit. The plant reaches tall and broad. Description By relative inflorescence height, ''Arum'' species are divided into "cryptic" species, whose inflorescences are borne on a short peduncle amid or below the leaves, and "flag" species, whose inflorescences are above leaf level at the end of long peduncles. ''A. creticum'' is a flag species. Taxonomy Together with '' Arum idaeum'' it has been placed in subsection ''Cretica'', which has been confirmed through genetic testing. They are estimated to have split about 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Apulum
''Arum apulum'', known as Apulian arum, is a flowering plant species in the family Araceae. Description ''Arum apulum'' is a tuberous herbs that spreads clonally through discoid vertically oriented tubers. Flowers are borne on a spadix. Its flowers release a dung scent detectable by pollinators of the Sphaeroceridae and Chironomidae families. The dominant volatile compounds are l-decene, dimethyl-octadiene, and p-cresol. Habitat The species is endemic to Italy, where it grows in low scrub at altitudes of 300 to 400 meters in central Apulia. It is threatened by habitat destruction. Taxonomy Within the genus ''Arum'', it belongs to subgenus ''Arum'', section ''Dioscoridea'', and subsection ''Dischroochiton''. ''A. apulum'' is tetraploid, with a chromosome A chromosome is a package of DNA containing part or all of the genetic material of an organism. In most chromosomes, the very long thin DNA fibers are coated with nucleosome-forming packaging proteins; in eukaryo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Besserianum
''Arum besserianum'' is a flowering plant species in the family Araceae. Habitat ''Arum besserianum'' grows in southern Poland and northwest Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor .... Taxonomy Within the genus ''Arum'', it belongs to subgenus ''Arum'', section ''Dioscoridea'', and subsection ''Discroochiton''. Its specific status has been considered dubious, but it has been recognized as a valid species in recent studies. References Cormous plants Flora of Europe Flora of Poland Flora of Ukraine besserianum Plants described in 1858 {{Araceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Dioscoridis
''Arum dioscoridis'', commonly known as the Spotted arum, is a plant of the arum family (Araceae). The plant was described by James Edward Smith in '' Flora Graeca'' (1816). The species is named after the ancient Greek physician and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides. The plant is native to forests in the east of the Mediterranean in southern Turkey, Cyprus, Greece and the Middle East. Description In winter appear green, arrow-shaped leaves. In spring, the short-stalked inflorescence appears consisting of a black, rod-shaped spadix surrounded by a yellow-green, purple-mottled brown or even purple bract (spathe). The color pattern of the spathe is variable, and multiple varieties have been described based on different patterns. The female flowers are located at the bottom of the spadix; above are the male flowers; and the top is a sterile area (appendix). The spadix emits a pungent smell that attracts flies as pollinators. By relative inflorescence height, ''Arum'' species are divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araceae
The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe (or leaf-like bract). Also known as the arum family, members are often colloquially known as aroids. This family of 114 genera and about 3,750 known species is most diverse in the New World tropics, although also distributed in the Old World tropics and northern temperate regions. Description Within the Araceae, species are often rhizomatous or tuberous; many are epiphytic, creeping lianas or vining plants, and the leaves and tissues of the entire plant nearly always contains irritating calcium oxalate crystals or raphides, in varying degrees. The foliage can vary considerably from species to species. The majority of species produce an inflorescence consisting of a spadix (which some compare to a corn cob, in appearance), which is nearly always surrounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spadix (botany)
In botany, a spadix ( ; : spadices , ) is a type of inflorescence having small flowers borne on a fleshy stem. Spadices are typical of the family Araceae, the arums or aroids. The spadix is typically surrounded by a leaf-like curved bract known as a spathe. For example, the "flower" of the well known ''Anthurium'' spp. is a typical spadix with a large colorful spathe. In this type of inflorescence, the Peduncle (botany), peduncle is thick, long and fleshy, having small sessile unisexual flowers covered with one or more large green or colourful Bract, bracts (spathe). Spadix inflorescence is found in colocasia, Araceae, aroids, maize and Arecaceae, palms (palms have compound spadix). Plant sexuality, Monoecious aroids have unisexual male and female flowers on the same individual and the spadix is usually organized with female flowers towards the bottom and male flowers towards the top. Typically, the Stigma (botany), stigmas are no longer receptive when pollen is released which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zantedeschia
''Zantedeschia'' () is a genus of eight species of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants in the aroid family, Araceae, native to southern Africa (from South Africa northeast to Malawi). The genus has been introduced, in some form, on every continent other than Antarctica. Common names include arum lily for ''Z. aethiopica'', calla and calla lily for ''Z. elliottiana'' and ''Z. rehmannii''. However, members of this genus are not true lilies (which belong to the family Liliaceae), and the genera ''Arum'' and '' Calla'', although related, are distinct from ''Zantedeschia'', despite visual similarities. The colourful flowers and leaves, of both species and cultivars, are greatly valued and commonly grown as ornamental and garden plants. Description ''Zantedeschia'' species are rhizomatous, herbaceous, perennial plants with some species, e. g., ''Zantedeschia aethiopica'', growing to 1.2 m tall, while ''Zantedeschia rehmannii'' does not exceed 60 cm in height, growing in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arum Euxinum
''Arum euxinum'' is a plant of the arum family (Araceae The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe (or leaf-like bract). Also ...). It is native to the area of northern Turkey that borders the Black Sea. References euxinum Cormous plants Flora of Turkey Plants described in 1983 {{Araceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
