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Also known as Cuckoo Pint, a very common flower found throughout the uk, growing on moist humus rich acid soils from April to May, in shaded woodlands and hedgerows. Very distinctive with its pale green hood which surrounds the male and female part of the flower. Like other Arums in this family, to pollinate the Wild Arum flower emits a odour which attracts insects, which are trapped after entering by a ring of bristles. the insects can only escape after the spathe of the flower has withered, the insects covered in pollen then go in search of another flower to feed and pollinate. The spadix eventually creates a stalk of green berries which turn bright red which are very poisonous.
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