[crh75]

Hi,
Can anybody tell me what this is?
Many thanks in advance.
Chris

[BabbyAnn]

your link takes you to a log in page ....

[crh75]

Sorry I have attached the picture now.

[Mother-Hen]

I think you'll find it's cuckoo pint ( Or lords and ladies in some parts.)
 It is highly poisonous.......

[maloneranger]

Yes, cuckoo pint; wild arum; lords and ladies etc.

Grows wild in hedgerows etc.

The berries will turn crimson as they ripen.

[Growster...]

We've got lots of these and are real treasures when they turn red!

Keep the kids away from them though, as Mother Hen says!

[mumofstig]

There seems to be a lot of it about this year 

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=75018.msg1294578#msg1294578

[crh75]

Thanks everybody

[jaydig]

I have one of the cultivated arums in the garden - arum italicum pictum. It's leaves are produced in the winter, and provide some much needed greenery, plus the leaves are wonderful for use with cut flowers. In spring they produce the papery, hooded 'flowers', followed by the spikes of berries, which start off green, and then mature to red. The whole plant then dies down until early winter, when the leaves are produced again. Remove the spikes of 'berries' if you don't want them all round the garden.