“This species grows native from Nepal & Northeast India to south central China. It has a dark purple to chocolate spathe striped or marked white.
The mottled or purple-blotched leaf stem bears a huge tropical-looking shiny palmate leaf, divided to look a bit like three leaves with reddish brown margins.
It prefers dappled shade. It can sometimes require a mulch for protection in winter but is generally very hardy.
Usually an easy species to grow in zones 7+, it can be strict about soil conditions. Its ground must be extremely well-draining or the large cylindrical tuber & roots may rot. Yet consistent moisture is also required.
The spathe lasts three or four weeks then dies back. If it develops a seed head, that will ripen slowly, lasting until the start of autumn.
The very decorative leaf will generally last until summer’s end unless the soil gets too dry or the stem gets battered. Harsh weather does sometimes break the larger varieties of jack-in-the-pulpits, so that a leeside windbreak of shrubbery is useful both to protect it from high winds & to provide it with its requisit shade.”
Description courtesy of Paghat.com
Healthy Full Size Bulbs. Slightly more than the Mass of a golf ball.
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