1. Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
   "The lords-and-ladies's distinctive purple spadix appears in early spring";
   - cuckoopint, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum

Type of: aroid, arum

Part of: genus Arum

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