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Revised 02/27/08

More information on our favorite mascot which has this habit of being able to change its sex!!

• Did you know that Arum comes from the Arabic word for fire?
• Let's see, there's a book "Jack In the Pulpit"  by Cynthia Riggs, June 2004.  
• Did you ever wonder what a basketball game between the Detroit Pistils and the Chicago Bulbs would look like?  No?  Well, someone else has-- http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Ghosts/s99cover.html
• Only Ketzel Levine could descibe Arisaemas as "chlorophyllic aliens in life forms resembling hooded cobras, miniature owls, and -- according to one source who survived an encounter -- men with "cute little ears that resemble a flustered Ross Perot." Wearing helmetlike spathes over their spiked spadices (more, later, on Alienwear), they are multiplying in numbers and stealing gardeners' souls."  For more, go to-  http://www.npr.org/programs/talkingplants/profiles/arisaema.html 
• Collectible Glass - Learn about Jack in the Pulpit Vases
• The national Gallery of Art has Georgia O'Keeffe paintings of Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, 1930

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