Scientific Name: Zantedeschia aethiopica
Common Name: calla lily, arum lily
Family Name: Araceae
Origin:
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Vase
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Cut flower or foliage, Indoor plant, Perennial border, Summer interest, Waterside planting
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Deltoid, Ovate, Entire
Flowers: Spadix (& spathe), White, Yellow, Jun-Jul
Fruit: Berry (true), Orange, Green, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Rhizomes only; leaves basal, large, arrowhead-shaped, forming clumps to 60-90cm tall, florets minute and in a yellow finger-like spadix surrounded by a bright white bract (the spathe).