Italicum

Arum Italicum is the garden plant that earns its keep across almost the entire year. In late spring and early summer it produces its architectural greenish white spathes above dark, silver veined foliage that has been brightening shaded winter borders since autumn. By late summer the flowers give way to upright spikes of vivid orange red berries that stand through autumn and into early winter, glowing against the darkening garden. Then the leaves return, marbled, elegant and completely indifferent to cold, and the cycle begins again. Few garden plants provide this much interest across this many seasons, and fewer still do it in the dry, root filled shade beneath trees where very little else will grow. Dutch grown and selected by BLOM for the healthy tubers that establish quickly.