#cuckoo-pint

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Daffodils, cuckoo-pint leaves, view and a male Mallard one of a few seen on a flooded area at Lakeside Country Park this evening 20/02/2026. Other highlights included Canada Geese, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, daisy and crocuses.

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Arums are the emblem of 'ardour' in the language of flowers. They generate their own heat - why, no one knows for certain.

More on Substack for V-day: Lords and Ladies - the Arum in love.

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Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum).

‘Cuckoo-pint tubers are edible cooked and a source of Portland arrowroot, also formerly used to starch linen.’

Coloured zincograph (circa 1853) after M. Burnett. 

Published by James Sangster & Co.

Image and text information courtesy  Wellcome Collection.  CC BY          

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Rose hip in the garden and daffodil, my first Yellowhammer of the year a bird I love which it was joyful to see well and hear nicely, cuckoo-pint leaves, pine, Kestrel, primroses and view at Magdalen Hill Down 16/03/2025.

Exciting views of a Stoat and Red Admiral butterfly and more glorious Red Kite views this weekend, Chiffchaffs a lovely energetic springtime sight, top Goldcrest views and my first ground ivy of the year were other highlights with viburnum enjoyed at home too as well as Woodpigeon. Another fantastic weekend in the sun.

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