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Arum italicum
Large Cuckoo Pint
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0321 0336 (2021-03-03)Copyright © 2021 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Apr 22, 2006
latitude 44.37490 longitude 14.78140
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location
Island Olib, south part of village Olib, Adriatic Sea, Dalmatia (Zadar region, Slovenia)notes Slo.: laški kačnik - syn.: Arisarum italicum (Mill.) Raf., Arum maculatum var. italicum (Mill.) O. Targ. Tozz. - Habitat: Abandoned fields within a village; semiruderal place; partly overgrown with grass and other herbs, growing under an old Olea europeae; flat terrain; calcareous, red, Karst soil; partly sunny, dry place; elevation 20 m (66 feet); average precipitations ~ 980 mm/year, average temperature 13-15 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comment: (relates to the album Arum italicum – I and II): - Plants of the genus Arum are very interesting. A large yellowish leaf – spatula - surrounds inflorescence. Flowers are hidden and enveloped by it. Without dissecting the inflorescence one can see only yellow, cylindrical, terminal appendage - spadix - of the inflorescence. Actual male and female flowers are many, very tiny and separated. - Two most common species of this genus grow in Slovenia as well as in Croatia: Arum italicum Mill. and Arum maculatum L.. Theoretically it is very easy to separate both. Arum italicum Mill. has yellow spots on its leaves or strips around leaf veins and yellow spadix and Arum maculatum L. has dark, sometimes almost black, spots on its leaves and darker, more or less violet tinted spadix. However, in practice one can find all kinds of 'intermediate' forms. Plants without leaf spots are frequent, and Arum maculatum may have also yellow spadix (when young). There are differences also in leaf shape and the ratio between the lengths of flower's and leaf stalk, etc. However, they all vary very much. So, the determination is not always straightforward. - This find shows typically colored spadix of Arum italicum but only some yellowish blotches along the leaf veins. Alternative Arum maculatum is fortunately not present on island Olib, so the determination seems reliable. - Ref.: (1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007) (in Slovene), p 935. (2) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske, Priručnik za određivanje bilja, Školska Knjiga, Zgreb, II. izdanje (2002), p 469. (3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 503.camera Nikon D70 /Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_113/2006_DSC0011 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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Large Cuckoo Pint, Italian Lords-and-ladies (photographer)
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