Arum hygrophilum

A cormous Mediterranean arum from damp ground in the eastern Mediterranean and northeastern Morocco, with a white, purple-marked spathe held above the leaves. It grows through the mild wet winter and goes dormant underground through the hot, almost rainless summer, so it needs a cool winter growing season and a dry summer rest.

At home, aim for

Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry

Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

A terrestrial geophyte of moist places, as its name suggests: damp fields, ditches, stream margins and wet hollows in lowland and foothill Mediterranean country. Habitat detail here comes from the name and the genus, not from a species account.

Recorded at 60–900 m, median about 180 m.

CyprusLebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeMorocco

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, unmodified.