Arisaema iyoanum var nakaianum Cambodia Craig Moretz in 1999

Craig Moretz in 1999

Due to its sterility

both in their macabre beauty and memorable fragrance (like running over a skunk)

it's no problem to cut them to the ground

large-flowered

Arisaema iyoanum var nakaianum Cambodia Craig Moretz in 1999Arisaema iyoanum var. nakaianum is one of the rarest and most dramatic of the Japanese native cobra lilies found only along riverbanks in Japan's Shikoku Province. The 3' tall single black blotched stalk is topped with a single horseshoe shaped green leaf with 9 11 leaflets. The jack in the pulpit like spathe is dark black with pink to green vertical striping. Inside the flower (spathe) sits a club like green spadix with black freckles each seedling