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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). |