On the tenth day of Christmas, here are the extraordinary flowers of lords-and-ladies, the wild arum (Arum maculatum), photographed in the park during April’s lockdown.







Pictures taken in the park by Suzanne Humphries
On the tenth day of Christmas, here are the extraordinary flowers of lords-and-ladies, the wild arum (Arum maculatum), photographed in the park during April’s lockdown.
Pictures taken in the park by Suzanne Humphries
Very suggestive!
Indeed – and lots of the common names reflect that: devils and angels, cows and bulls, soldiers diddies, priest’s pintle, cuckoo-pint (pintle and pint are archaic words for penis), Adam and Eve, naked girls, naked boys.