Here's a trick question: When is a plant's main attraction neither the flowers nor the foliage? In the case of the genus Arisaema, the spathe is the cause of both curiosity and wonder. The members of ...

The distinctive-looking plant Arisaema urashima is a common sight in woodlands in Japan, with its long-thread like appendage that looks like a fishing rod and line. A research collaboration has now ...

Both plants have evolved into a similar shape due to the same evolutionary pressure to trap insects, although their aims in trapping them differ (Arisaema: reliable pollination; Sarracenia: nutrient ...

What: Arisaema consanguineum, also known as Himalayan cobra lily, is great for the woodland garden. The leaf stem emerges in spring to early summer reaching 2 to 3 feet tall with a tuft of leaflets at ...

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The weird and wonderful world of arisaema, aka the cobra lily Arisaema can change sex. When small and young, they are male; but they can become either hermaphroditic or female as they age, and then, ...

After years of looking for the plant, naturalist Tarun Chhabra chanced upon several flowering Arisaema translucens in 2009 in a patch of shola forest in the Nilgiri mountains. Specimens of the species ...

In the Araceae plant family, most male and female flowers are separate, and form special male and female structures called spathes. These flowers mainly attract fungus gnats that pollinate them, but ...

India (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar): corms cooked in water and mixed with salt and chili peppers. Seeds also reported eaten.

The distinctive-looking plant Arisaema urashima is a common sight in woodlands in Japan. It has a large spathe (sheath enclosing its flowers) from which hangs a long-thread like appendix (that can ...