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Purple Spathe Arum

Arum purpureospathum

Purple Spathe Arum
Photo: Ettrig, CC BY-SA 4.0

Arum purpureospathum is a small tuberous woodland plant from Crete, related to the arums, and is rarely grown outside its native range. Give it a cool, shaded, well-drained spot and let the tuber rest dry in summer.

Family
Araceae (Arum family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Water freely in the growing season and keep nearly dry while dormant in summer.
Soil
Humus-rich, free-draining woodland soil or a gritty leaf-mould mix.
Temperature
10–20 °C; protect from hard frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Kriti
Climate
subtropical

About

Arum purpureospathum is a woodland plant species of the family Araceae. It is found on Crete.

Other Arum plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arum purpureospathum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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