Scientific Name: Zantedeschia cvs.
Common Name: calla lily, arum lily
Family Name: Araceae
Origin: Africa, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C)
Plant Type: Flowering cut plant, Flowering pot plant, Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Aquatic - ponds, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Floristry, Indoor plant, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Deltoid, Elliptic, Ovate, Entire, Undulate (wavy)
Flowers: Spadix (& spathe), White, Yellow, Pink, Black, Jun-Jul-Aug
Fruit: Berry (true), Orange, Yellow, Green, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Rhizomes only; leaves basal, large, arrowhead-shaped, forming clumps up to 60-90cm tall, flowers minute and in a yellow finger-like spadix surrounded by a bright white or colorful bract (the spathe).