{"id":25210,"date":"2023-03-09T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=25210"},"modified":"2023-03-09T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:34:31","slug":"cuckoo-pints-are-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/2023\/03\/09\/cuckoo-pints-are-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuckoo pints are in bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lords-and-ladies flower in April and May and favour shady habitats <\/p>\n\n

\"\"
Lords-and-ladies has leaves shaped like an arrow <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Word of Mouth <\/em>
<\/strong>Folk names for plants and flowers <\/p>\n\n

\n\n

THE ARUM LILY, OR LORDS-AND-LADIES, IS among the most familiar woodland plants in the British Isles, and one of the most curious. Its shiny leaves begin growing quite early in spring, and have arrow-like points. These curl to form a hood or sheath around an erect purple-brown spike, called the spadix. The spadix is actually a cluster of many small flowers, and when fully developed releases an unpleasant scent like stale urine, as well as giving off heat. Tiny flies are attracted, thus pollinating the plant. <\/p>\n\n

Another common name for this botanical oddity is cuckoo pint. \u2018Pint\u2019 is old slang for penis, and you can probably work out why the plant brought this to mind. Many of its other alternative names such as \u2018Jack-in-thepulpit\u2019 and \u2018soldier-in-a-sentry-box\u2019 are also double-entendres. As BBC <\/em>Wildlife <\/em>columnist Nick Baker wryly observes in his book British <\/em>Wildlife, <\/em>its traditional names contain more innuendo than a Carry <\/em>On <\/em>film. <\/p>\n\n

Ben Hoare <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

LORDS AND LADIES: BOB GIBBONS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lords-and-ladies flower in April and May and favour shady habitats <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":25208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","purple_page_number":"16","purple_custom_meta_purple_page_number":"16","purple_seq_number":"1","purple_custom_meta_purple_seq_number":"1","purple_source_article":"article_16-1.xml","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_article":"article_16-1.xml","purple_source_issue":"Spring-2023","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_issue":"Spring-2023","purple_external_id":"Spring-2023-16-1","purple_custom_meta_purple_external_id":"Spring-2023-16-1","purple_issue_code":"|0000087242||","purple_custom_meta_purple_issue_code":"|0000087242||","purple_android_product":"com.im.wildlife.502","purple_custom_meta_purple_android_product":"com.im.wildlife.502","purple_ios_product":"com.im.wildlife.502","purple_custom_meta_purple_ios_product":"com.im.wildlife.502","purple_web_product":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_web_product":"","purple_publication_id":"58d61955-0ac4-406c-83f1-ab6f21d86b70","purple_migrated":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-03-09T16:34:37Z","apple_news_article-theme":"","apple_news_api_id":"ed094a15-c84f-467c-86f0-4bbaf65842b2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-03-09T16:34:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A7QlKFchPRnyG8Eu69lhCsg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":true,"apple_news_is_preview":true,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_article_theme":"","apple_news_sections":"[]"},"categories":[25],"tags":[14],"apple_news_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/81d717f7-e864-4fc8-8764-33b376c52f4d.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2","apple_news_title":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/81d717f7-e864-4fc8-8764-33b376c52f4d.jpg",1209,1661,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/81d717f7-e864-4fc8-8764-33b376c52f4d-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/81d717f7-e864-4fc8-8764-33b376c52f4d-218x300.jpg",218,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/81d717f7-e864-4fc8-8764-33b376c52f4d-768x1055.jpg",768,1055,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/81d717f7-e864-4fc8-8764-33b376c52f4d-745x1024.jpg",745,1024,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/81d717f7-e864-4fc8-8764-33b376c52f4d-1118x1536.jpg",1118,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/81d717f7-e864-4fc8-8764-33b376c52f4d.jpg",1209,1661,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Lords-and-ladies flower in April and May and favour shady habitats","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25867,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210\/revisions\/25867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}