European Gardening: Wallaby1, my pink Callas are in bloom!, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
ferrymead, thank you and to your husband for giving a positve ID on that. I hate having plants that don't have a name even if they are pretty, it niggles! I like to know the reasons for it's colour change too, and it looks to have had a heavy pollen break!

I also hate it when I buy a named plant and it turns out to be totally different. I bought a Schwartzwalder about 3 years ago from J Parkers, it was expensive, £7.99 I believe. It failed to grow, it didn't even go rotten, it had the texture of dried cork almost but I was by that point so fed up with getting bad or wrong bulbs from them I just didn't bother to contact them. I also bought 3 Zantedexchia albomaculata, luckily one of those grew.

This year i was pleased to see it named as Black Forest at the supermarket for £2.49, more than some but I decided to give it another try. The bulb had an extra corm which came off easily so I potted it separately. They both grew, one had a very thin leaf with a not Black Forest spathe and was stunted. but interesting! The other had a smallish arrow shaped leaf with spots, just one.

This is the spathe, if it grows next year I think I will like it but I still want the black one! You can see another funny spathe coming at the bottom, it was a leaf spathe but had a small spadix, confused..