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Tue, May 22, 12 at 10:29
| I missed the flowers, but here's the leaf. I'm in VA and it's growing in the shade mostly.
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| Looks like Arum italicum. Rhonda |
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- Posted by whatsthepoint (My Page) on Tue, May 22, 12 at 11:43
| Thanks! |
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| I have that in my shady front yard, too (or hopefully not, as I just weeded it out). They are also called Italian Lords and Ladies. I was going to tell my interested kiddo about the funny name, but then realized the first thing out of her mouth would be "why is it called that?" so I got to thinking hmm...well the flower looks very vessel-like (ladies), and the seed stem kinda looks like (OH!) ok, nevermind...she doesn't need to know about that.....LOL |
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