Description
Arisaema peninsulae has strong, mid-green foliage sub-divided into short, broad leaflets. In some forms of this plant the leaves can be lined, zoned or speckled with paler or darker shades of green.
The leaves are held below a pale green, willowly stem with a stout inflorescence of distinctly yellowish green (the colour of a lime in the process of ripening!) which is lined with white. The lid of the spathe is rolled back to reveal a shiny green interior.
The ‘lid’ of the spathe extends stiffly forward to cover the fat and stout, yellow spadix which has a noticeably expanded end. This is not quite the pestle shape of e.g. sikokianum, but it is more like a very large Bengal match-head.
Easy in the garden and it makes a nice, slender, tight clump in time. It is fully hardy here under light woodland conditions, such as it grows in, in its native Japan. Flowers dependably in a well-drained, leafy loam.
