Zantedeschia aethiopicaCalla lily. A favorite of artists and photographers since the flower's introduction from South Africa over 150 years ago. While this photo is not in the league of the following artists, I post it in honor of Georgia O'Keefe, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham. Photographed in a private garden in Berkeley, CA.
at 3 m, adpressed, petiole square in TS and winged with two raised adaxial ridges; peduncle angulate in TS, striate, spathe pale green, spadix dark green Project web address: www.inbio.ac.cr/pila-darwin/
Calla palustrisBog ArumSlo.: movirska kaunka Dat.: April 21. 2011Lat.: 46.05943 Long.: 14.46937Code: Bot_507/2011_DSC7240 Habitat: Growing in a long time abandoned and overgrown artificial bog in mixed forest, wet flat acid terrain, mostly in shade, partly protected against direct rain by tree canopies, average precipitations ~ 1.400-1.500 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 340 m (1.100 feet), prealpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Place: Ljubljana, Ronik hill, Mostec place near Town Zoo, Slovenia EC Protection: Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "E" representing a critically endangered species. Only a few remaining places still known in Slovenia.Ref.:(1) Personal communication with Mr. Branko Dolinar. (2) M.A.Fischer, W.Adler, K.Oswald, Exkursionsflora Oesterreich Liechtenstein, Suedtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1013.(3) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 935.
Spathiphyllum wallisii RegelARACEAE Local: Braslia, Brasil.Origem: Venezuela e ColmbiaRef.: Lorenzi, H. e Souza, H.M. Plantas Ornamentais no Brasil. 4 edio. Plantarum, 2008.
Detail of wild Amorphophallus maximus from northern coastal Mozambique. Very peculiar is the extremely long spadix (81 cm). See also other pictures of this set.