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The bloom time may extend into June, but green berries have replaced most of the blooms by then.
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If ingested, intense burning of the throat, lips and tongue will occur.īloom Time- Arisaema dracontium blooms in mid May on Ozarkedge. This is related to the calcium oxalate crystals (and other toxins) in the plant. Group of Green dragon berries in SeptemberĪll parts of Arisaema dracontium are poisonous. In October, only a few berries are left to mark the place where the leaf will re-emerge in spring.Īs the berries ripen, the stem becomes weak and falls to the earth
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By mid September, the huge leaf has faded to yellow. They gradually ripen over the next couple of months, first turning yellow-green, then orange and finally bright crimson by late August.Īs the berries ripen, the stem- once strong and stout- weakens and bends to the earth. The berries are clustered together like a short ear of corn. Green berries appear shortly after the bloom fades in late May to early June. Group of Green dragon before blooming in early MayĪlthough the leaf and bloom are exotic in appearance, the most spectacular aspect of this plant is the crimson berries that appear at the cusp of summer and fall. Highly dissected, single leaf of Arisaema dracontium The dark green leaf is huge, reaching more than a foot across on mature plants. Green dragon in bloom showing long, tapering spadixĭescription- This exotic looking plant has a single leaf that is highly dissected into 5-15 deep lobes. The yellow-green flowers are enveloped by a green overcoat, known as a spathe.įrom the top of the flower, a long, tapering wand emerges. I’ll keep looking.īloom Color- The flower is on a stalk that branches from the leaf stem near the ground. Jack-in-the-pulpit is found throughout the Ozarks, but I haven’t encountered it on Ozarkedge. These two plants are reported to often grow near one another. A closely related plant of the same family is Arisaema triphyllu m or Jack-in-the-pulpit. Arisaema dracontium is in the Arum family. The flower spathe somewhat resembles the fire breathing dragon with the spreading leaf representing the dragon wings.Īrisaema is a combination of two Greek words, “Aris” meaning arum and “haema” meaning blood. It takes some imagination to match the name with the plant. Latin Name/Common Name- Green dragon also goes by the common names Dragon arum and Dragon root. My horse, as usual, was not very interested in my botanical discovery, so I returned later, camera in hand to identify my find. The crimson berries were hard to miss among the greenery of the lush creek bank. My first encounter with Arisaema dracontium occurred during a lazy horseback ride on a late summer afternoon.