Biarum tenuifolium   Narrow-leaved Biarum

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Related to our common British plant, Arum maculatum (Lords-and-ladies/Cuckoo Pint) this is a very dark, quite small plant. The spathe sometimes emerges before the leaf sheath which can be, as the name suggests, very long and narrow. It typically grows in dry stony habitats exactly where we found it. Most of the Biarum genus attract flies as pollinators with a foul smelling scent and some of group bravely got down on the hard, stony, dusty soil and stuck their noses next to this plant no more than a few centimetres tall. They all said it smelled bad and I accepted their word for that.

 

Biarum tenuifolium

Biarum tenuifolium/em> Narrow-leaved Biarum

Hills near Delphi, southern Greece, 17th October 2017

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Biarum tenuifolium Narrow-leaved Biarum

Hills near Delphi, southern Greece, 17th October 2017

Added on December 19th 2017

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