Authors: Mill.
Leaf stalks 25-40cm long. Leaf blades 12-25cm or more in length, sagittate to hastate, appearing in autumn. Spathe 15-40cm long, pale greenish-yellow to white, borne just amongst the leaves, late spring, early summer. The spikes of red berries in late summer are particularly showy. Southern and western Europe, eastward to Iraq and the Caucasus and southwards to North Africa, in various habitats, from woodland to waste ground.
A.i. subsp. albispathum (syn. A. albispathum), has the spathes pure white within. Subsp. neglectum has the leaves with or without dark spots. Subsp. italicum, (syn. 'Pictum') has narrower leaves with a conspicuous pattern of white veins. Subsp. italicum 'Marmoratum' is used for a plant with broader leaves and greyish veining. Confusingly, the same name is also sometimes used for plants with a variable amount of creamy-yellow veining; such plants occurs wild in Yugoslavia near the coast. Subsp. byzantinum, see A. byzantinum.
