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Re: Name that Plant

At 07:39 AM 3/27/97 -0800, you wrote:
>     The inflorescence is like a calla lily (Zantedeschia).  The exterior
>     of the sheath is pale green, and the sheath is *very* elongated,
>     ending in a point.  The interior is a dark purple or maroon, and there
>     is a very thick, pronounced mid-rib.  The edge of the sheath is
>     rippled.  The leaves, however, are unlike the callas and arums that I
>     know.  They are palmately divided.  I couldn't tell from the picture
>     how many leaflets, but more than five.  The leaflets have cut edges,
>     like a staghorn fern or whatever it is.  It's a most bizarre looking
>     plant.
>
>     Anyway, she says this thing is coming up all over.  Last year was the
>     first year she saw it, and it has spread.  She lives in Las Vegas,
>     Nevada, which gets extremes of heat and cold (it even snowed this
>     year), but she has created a great deal of shade and has a good drip
>     watering system.  The soil is very alkaline, although she's been
>     amending it for several years.

Perhaps an Arisaema (Jack-in-the-pulpit) or a species of Amorphophallus
(Voo-doo lily)

Check the IAS web site (Int'l Aroid Society) - many good pix there you
should be able to come pretty close if not dead on.  From what you have
said, I would bet on an Arisaema but it could be an Amorphophallus although
I do not know of any with pale green sheath - but there are a lot of them
that I've never seen... (Could be a bunch of other aroid genera I'm not
familiar with too!)

http://www.mobot.org/IAS/

Best of Luck... clint...
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