Description
(japonicum of horticulture, in part.)
Deep violet and green, snake-mottled stems with two divided leaves and a large spathe of green to violet, overlaid with purple on the outside and often striped with white internally, the stripes sometimes extending to the exterior of the tube.
The short spadix is deep dark purple (although it can rarely be white!) with a slightly swollen tip.
This is spread in the wild from Korea across Russia and the Japanese Islands. It is thus variable and this in turn has led to a myriad of names, but one feature which it always retains is its simple, elegant beauty.
