Dracunculus vulgaris
The dragon arum is a tuberous Mediterranean aroid that grows through the cool, wet winter and spring, opens a huge maroon spathe with a carrion smell in late spring, then dies back for the hot, dry summer. It is hardy and easy outdoors in mild climates if it gets a dry summer rest.
Where it grows wild
Rocky scrub, maquis and phrygana edges, olive groves, field margins and stream banks around the eastern Mediterranean, often in deep soil pockets among rocks and partly shaded by shrubs.
Recorded from sea level to about 1,120 m, median 210 m.
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