Arisaema maximowiczii Sun to Shade The 12" wide clump is

The 12" wide clump is topped with ugly lavender flowers in midsummer

large marble-sized

The very slender leaves provide an attractive contrast to bolder textured plants

since this poor plant's identity has been batted around by taxonomists more than a tennis ball on Wimbledon's Centre Court

upright-arching cinnamon-red stems

Arisaema maximowiczii Sun to Shade The 12" wide clump isFrom the Kyushu Mountains of Japan, this namesake of the 19th century Russian botanist, Carl Johann Maximowicz, is an elegant cobra lily with a 2' tall dark purple based stem. Each plant bears a ten leaflet leaf to the side of the main stem. The hood (spathe) is green and white striped and ends as a long thread hanging over the pitcher which houses the green spadix (sex organ).