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Arisaema consanguineum
Aroids (the family Araceae) produce a characteristic spathe and spadix flower arrangement.
The woodland aroid, Arisaema consanguineum, has a purple-green spathe with narrow, white, vertical stripes and a hood with a filamentous tail-like tip. The spathe encloses the club-like spadix (itself extended by a whiplash tail), which has all over its surface hundreds of tiny flowers. In late summer, the spathe withers and exposes a head of tightly packed red-orange berries. The species, native over much of eastern Asia, is one of nearly two dozen arisaemas in the David C. Lam Asian Garden at UBC Botanical Garden.
