Tuesday 5 May 2020

Recovery?

The decapitated cuckoo pint, last noticed just after decapitation at reference 1. Something clearly going on inside, although whether the something develops to a cluster of red berries, as it should, remains to be seen. Is this shroud around the flower just a redundant vestige of something or other, not necessary for mature fruit?

No recent sign of black spots, the spots which earn the plant its name of arum maculatum, which has always amused me by association to the immaculata of the Catholics, a very important person rather than a plant. See reference 2, from more than six years ago.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/04/cuckoo-pint.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2014/01/spring-is-coming.html.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_maculatum. For a plethora of other alternate names.

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