The Summer’s lush and dense Green Arrow Arum plants (Peltandra virginica) are now slowly nodding off into the pond waters and disappearing, while the surrounding Water Lily pads are randomly sinking out of sight. Soon, there will be no greenery in our marsh waters.
The Arum, also known as Tuckahoe, is a perennial native to our freshwater wetlands. One of the ways that it reproduces is interesting: It forms a nesting area for Chloropid Flies and dapples them with pollen when they arrive; the flies, in turn, visit other plants and pollinate them. (Brooklin, Maine)