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Dioscorides Arum

Arum dioscoridis

Dioscorides Arum
Photo: איתן פרמן, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Araceae (Arum family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
E. Aegean Is. to Jordan, Cyprus
Climate
subtropical

About

Arum dioscoridis, commonly known as the Spotted arum, is a plant of the arum family (Araceae).

The plant was described by James Edward Smith in Flora Graeca (1816). The species is named after the ancient Greek physician and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides.

How to grow it

The plant can be grown as an ornamental plant in rock gardens Mediterranean regions. In the Benelux, the plant can be grown indoors as a pot plant. The plant can be propagated by seeding.

Other Arum plants

Apulian Lords And Ladies · Arum besserianum · Arum · Elaborated Arum · Cretan Arum · Mountain Arum · Arum cyrenaicum · Black Sea Arum · Water Arum · Arum idaeum · Arum italicum subsp. albispathum · Arum italicum subsp. canariense

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arum dioscoridis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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