Green Dragon

Old earth dog · Post by **Old earth dog** » May 24, 2005 12:20 am

Hard to get a good pic with everything else around it. Sure need a bigger yard.

shadylanejewel · Post by **shadylanejewel** » May 24, 2005 12:31 am

I really must get more Arisaemas

Very

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » May 24, 2005 10:20 am

Nice one. I (ahem) "rescued" one of these from where I used to work (flood plain in a shale-laden creek valley). I honestly don't remember it setting seed at my place. Always a nail-biter to see if it's going to return in the spring. But this year, whaddya know but I find two of the little guys, one of them a good 3' away from where the original one was. Nobody is bloom size yet. I may move one of them up to the hosta garden where I can keep an eye on it.

pauhaus · Post by **pauhaus** » May 24, 2005 10:54 am

Wow, that is very cool. How big do they get?

Deb118 · Post by **Deb118** » May 24, 2005 11:27 am

Enlighten me. What the HE(( is it???

It's cool, but what is it?

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » May 24, 2005 6:35 pm

Arisaema dracontium
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/gal ... adrac.html

Much rarer than the usual native jack-in-the-pulpit. One has to wonder why.

Old earth dog · Post by **Old earth dog** » May 24, 2005 11:05 pm

Thanks for the great pics and site Tigger.
Mine do seem to produce seed clusters less often than JIP, but I do get a few seedlings in the garden. When I got mine it was from an area we cleared for a friends house. the JIP were all over the place. I found one GD comming up along the house foundation a year after we finished the house. I now have 3-4 nice sized ones and a few seedlings. Like JIP, they need a couple of yrs to flower.