Re: plant identification

T84443 wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am hoping that someone can help me identify a plant. I moved to a new house
> last summer and have a neighbor that has a plant that I know, but can not
> remember the name of.
> 
> It is a perennial, getting to about 4 feet tall when mature, has thick stems
> that are mottled simular to an arisema, glossy dark green foliage and a flower
> like a Calla Lily which has a very foul odor. In the Pacific NW the few times
> I have seen it, it is in dry shade conditions. Once established it is very
> hard to kill, but does not really spread itself around enough to be considered
> a weed. I have heard some people do grow it, but cut off the flowers. I can
> not find it in any of the books that I have on weeds or ornamental perennials,
> I guess it is a tweeny.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Terry / Seattle
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We sold a VooDoo Lily earlier this spring and one customer told me that
it is exactly as you describe.  He even brought me in several young
plants to grow on.  I had thought it might be a arasima, but it is a
sauromatum venosum.

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