Description
(syn. thunbergii urashima)
An elegant dwarf Japanese species(with natutsally small tubers) which makes its good-sized spathe quite close to the ground. This is white speckled with purple-brown at the base, darkening to purple at the very flared mouth. The two regions being connected with lines of purple dots.
The spathe wraps around an elongated chocolate spadix that winds up and out of the spathe and finally makes its way down to the ground.
Thrives in the garden, in a light, leafy soil preferably in half-shade and hardy here.
