cuckoopint
Arum maculatum latin

Hopeful lovers used petals of the cuckoopint to increase them.

It is distinct from ordinary cuckoopint as the leaves appear in the autumn.

The cuckoopint of the English is an example.

Arum (Cuckoopint)

Arum maculatum is a common woodland plant species of the Araceae family.

Arum maculatum is cultivated as an ornamental plant in traditional and woodland shade gardens.

Piophila vulgaris visits Arum maculatum flowers in England.

It commonly infects Arum maculatum and Allium ursinum causing yellow to orange circular patches on leaves.

The purple spotted leaves of Arum maculatum appear in the spring (April-May) followed by the flowers borne on a poker shaped inflorescence called a spadix.

USDA PLANTS Profile for Arum maculatum (cuckoo pint)

The leaves of A. ursinum are easily mistaken for Lily of the Valley, sometimes also those of Colchicum autumnale and Arum maculatum.

On the ground, sprouts of shiny dark-green bluebell plants Hyacinthoides non-scriptus will be pushing through the leaf-litter, along with the odd twisted shoots of cuckoo pint Arum maculatum.

Arum maculatum is also known as Cuckoo Pint or Cuckoo-pint in the British Isles and is named thus in Nicholas Culpepers' famous 16th Century herbal.

When the leaves of Allium ursinum and Arum maculatum first sprout they look similar, but unfolded Arum maculatum leaves have irregular edges and many deep veins while ramsons leaves are convex with a single main vein.