Yes a Cuckoo Pint, Arum maculatum. What do you mean you were expecting that harbinger of spring and prize nest squatter Cuculus canorus? Sorry. Earlier today, whilst innocently skipping through the streets of fair Ilfracombe, I was stopped in my tracks by this outlandish inflorescence, which is known as a spadix. If I was a Victorian lady I would have averted my eyes. I may have blushed a little. I tiptoed past sleeping Rottweilers to take this photo. Luckily I didn’t have my tap shoes on …..
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Off The Edge Gardening 
Georgia O’Keeffe would have had her paint brush out and ready.
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She would, quite right!
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A mini Voodoo Lily?
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It has that look doesn’t it, very exotic!
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Eye- catching and useful too. Gerard said ‘ It hath a peculiar virtue against the gout, being laied on with cowe’ s dung’.
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That is very useful information in our house at the moment!
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And as Shakespeare said: “When daisies pied and violets blue/and lady-smocks all silver-white/and cuckoo-buds of yellow hue/do paint the meadows with delight” 🙂
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Lovely quote thank you M’Lady!
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