Pinellia tripartita
A hardy tuberous aroid from southern Japan and Korea that puts up three-lobed leaves and a long-tailed green or purple spathe in summer, then dies back in autumn. Treat it as a woodland bulb: moist and partly shaded while in leaf, cool and barely damp while dormant.
Where it grows wild
Grows on shaded woodland edges, forest floors, slopes and field margins in warm-temperate lowlands and hills. Habitat details follow the genus; the species page has none.
Recorded from 10 to 700 m, median 300 m.
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