Friday’s seed with Water arum

The abundance of red fruits of the Water arum, Calla palustris, draw my attention the past weekend while looking for (and not finding) skunk cabbage fruits. 
Although the last, bad experience of extracting the seeds from the Water arum berries was still vivid in my mind, I took a couple of them.

The fruits are clusters of red berries; each berry contains a few seeds, enclosed in a mucilage, which is almost impossible to get rid off. The seeds are best extracted by squeezing the end of the berry; even so, the ‘blobs’ of mucilage seem to have a long life of their own :O

The Water arum is a very hardy and reliable flowering species for any wet areas in cold climates, easily growing and forming colonies in still, shallow waters like ponds, streams edges; it can also be cultivated in large water-containers.

Like other members from the Araceae family, the ‘flowers’ are formed from a showy white spathe surrounding a cylindrical spadix bearing the greenish-white, small real flowers. 

I will not repeat the experience too soon, so those with proper garden conditions do not miss this opportunity. Very important, the seeds need to be kept moist packed!
Other native species added to the inventory:
Aruncus dioicus – new
Asclepias exaltata