ARUM ITALICUM ’MARMORATUM’

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

A marbled-leaved selection of Arum italicum, grown for its foliage rather than its inflorescence. The leaves are arrow-shaped and dark glossy green, boldly veined in cream to ivory along both the main and the secondary veins; they emerge in autumn and stand through the winter. The spathe is greenish-yellow with a yellow spadix, and the infructescence ripens to a dense spike of orange-red berries. Plants reach about 50 cm. It holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

NOTES:

1. The Royal Horticultural Society treats Arum italicum 'Pictum' and Arum italicum var. pictum as synonyms of this cultivar.¹

2. The synonym 'Pictum' is easily confused with Arum pictum, which is not a cultivar of Arum italicum but a distinct autumn-flowering species of Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands.¹

3. The Royal Horticultural Society places the cultivar under Arum italicum subsp. italicum. Boyce found in 2006 that subspecies neglectum could not be separated from subspecies italicum, so the subspecies rank adds nothing here.¹

REFERENCES:

1. Royal Horticultural Society — Arum italicum subsp. italicum 'Marmoratum'

Additional photos by Monksilver Nursery