Sacha writes
On 17/3/06 0:00, in article , "ned"
wrote:
But, I did in fact mean that I didn't think it looked like Arum
maculatum (Lords and Ladies / Cuckoo pint) because that tends to have
10 - 20 cm long arrow shaped leaves, held upright, at this time of
year. The arrow in the OPs picture is pointing (left back) at what
appears to have cordate heart shaped leaves, parallel with the ground,
of a size more apropriate to Lesser celandine ......... IMHO. :-)
I see what you mean - could be. But I still think it's probably cuckoo pint
which hasn't stood upright yet! Doesn't it look rather too large for
celandine?
No - depends on the soil. Saw one at our Nature Park on Sunday which I
had to have a close look at to make sure it wasn't a marsh marigold!
And it's one of the things I'd expect someone would recognise
anyway.
We've had celandine raised as an identification problem before, I think.
And a surprising number gardeners with a good knowledge of garden plants
have only the sketchiest knowledge of our native plants ... though one
might expect them to recognise it from the white variety which is sold
as a garden plant.
Perhaps the OP can come back a bit later and tell us what it turns
into!
Yes - it's always nice to find out the final outcome. The OP has said
he's pretty sure its the arum.
I'm still putting my money on the arum because of the dark markings, but
agree with Ned that the one in the picture looks celandine like. As the
OP said, the pic isn't actually of the plant he wants identified, but
one that he scanned from a book, and it is conceivable that the pic is
celandine but the woodland plant he wants identified is arum.
--
Kay