WTA!

What the Arisaema! :-)

A couple of years ago I stumbled upon an Arisaema triphyllum population with huge leaves; among them, even a specimen with 3 leaves and two fruits.

Arisaema triphyllum – large form; the seeds are in the shop.

I didn’t carry a measuring tape but the length of the leaflets was much more than 1 ft. (30 cm). I also don’t know the colour of the spathe, anyway I failed to collect the fruits that time.

WTA!

I’ve seen other Arisaema triphyllum with leaves this large but the majority of seeds I collect are from more ‘normal’ (smaller) plants. So, I returned this fall and collected some of the fruits already lying on the woodland floor.

Arisaema triphyllum plants are cross pollinated, so it’s only a matter of luck to obtain an interesting form when growing from seeds.

There is great potential here!

A note regarding the germination: all A. triphyllum seeds collections from our region proved to be warm germinators; even older seeds. It will be interesting to see about these ones.