Italian Arum (Arum italicum) in the Arums Database

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Partial or Dappled Shade Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic Dry Mesic Dry
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 5b -26.1 °C (-15 °F) to -23.3 °C (-10 °F)
Plant Height:	12 inches - 18 inches
Plant Spread:	12 inches - 14 inches
Fruit:	Showy Other: Berries orange-red when ripe.
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	White Other: Cream to pale Yellow
Flower Time:	Spring
Underground structures:	Tuber
Resistances:	Deer Resistant Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity:	Other: All parts of plant contain calcium oxalate crystals, an irritant to the mouth and esophagus. Toxic to cats and dogs.
Propagation: Seeds:	Other info: Remove seeds from berry which contains chemicals that inhibit germination.
Propagation: Other methods:	Division Offsets
Pollinators:	Flies
Miscellaneous:	Goes Dormant

Common names

Italian Arum
Lords and Ladies
Italian Lords and Ladies
Large Cuckoo Pint
Orange Candleflower

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Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-07-13

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Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2015-11-09

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Location: Southern Pines, NC (Boyd House garden)
Date: October 16, 2022
Italian Arum #117 nn; LHB page 187, 29-19-4., "Ancient name."

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Location: Cary, North Carolina private garden
Date: Summer
Italian Arum fruits in my late summer garden

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Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 10th August 2009
green berries turning red..

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Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 11th January 2008

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Location: Hood, Alabama
Date: 2022-04-23

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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-05-03

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2013-12-09

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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA
Date: 2021-06-15

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Location: Hamilton Square Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2018-03-27

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Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Date: 2022-04-16

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Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-12

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Location: My brother's garden, Belgium
Date: 2015-08-18

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Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: May 20, 2012
photo by James Steakley

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Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2016-04-02
Emerging spring growth

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Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 16th May 2008

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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2021-12-27

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-10-22

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Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Aug 28, 2012

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2017-01-10

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 4-14-14

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Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 19th April 2008

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Location: Nature reserve, Ghent, Belgium
Date: 2015-12-28

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Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-05-15

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2014-04-11

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Comments:

Posted by Mike (Lower Hudson Valley, New York - Zone 6b) on Aug 24, 2014 8:05 PM concerning plant:

In my New York garden, Italian Arum is an eye-catching novelty, with its cone of bright orange-red berries, peeking out beneath its tropical looking leaves. Fortunately it has always "stayed put" and never been invasive in my garden; perhaps our frigid winters help to keep it in check. At the end of the growth cycle the leaves become limp and slowly fade in color and vigor, and they are best pulled out at that time.

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Posted by zuzu (Northern California - Zone 9a) on Sep 23, 2011 10:58 PM concerning plant:

This plant can be terribly invasive in some locations. One of my neighbors moved an Arum italicum houseplant outside years ago. The Arum has now spread to 30 or 40 gardens in the neighborhood and is nearly impossible to eradicate. Constant mowing can eradicate it temporarily, but it eventually returns, creeping in from all of the surrounding properties.

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Plant Events from our members
AndreA33	On March 15, 2016	Plant emerged
piksihk	On November 27, 2019	Plant emerged One leaf emerged; HW.
piksihk	On May 2, 2019	Obtained plant
antsinmypants	On May 15, 2023	Transplanted Into the shade garden by the firepit.
antsinmypants	On May 14, 2023	Obtained plant
antsinmypants	On February 28, 2023	Seeds sown WS all 6 seeds.
WebTucker	On October 17, 2022	Obtained plant

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What a fascinating plant !! Italian Arum (Arum italicum) by CDsSister	Aug 26, 2012 2:29 AM	3

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