Other Araceae

Wolfgang is part of a large family of plants called Araceae. Members of the Araceae family come is all sorts of shapes and sizes. Some can be found as houseplants, growing in forests, or in the backyard. To be classified in the Araceae family a plant needs to have leaves with parallel veins, usually a spadix with many small flowers, a spathe, endospermous seeds, and raphide crystals.

The JCRA grows about 70 different types of cold hardy Araceae, or aroids as they are commonly known, in the garden year-round including many hardy Amorphophallus.