Started this painting on the day of the three kings January 6th
guess its my take on the Epiphany, Amazonian style
If you want to learn more about what is going on down south of the border in the jungles-
here is the crew: https://amazonfrontlines.org/
hoping that instead of gold, frankincense and myrrh,
they bring gifts of jaguars, anacondas, and a nice clean river of many colors
A lot of the indoor house plants are in the arum family
they are grown for their fanciful foliage and occasionally for their neat colorful flowers, if you can call em that
it is a cool lookin group with an atypical inflorescence
the inflorescence is composed of a big hoody like spathe of a backdrop
coupled with a stick of flowers within called a spadix
this matures into either a stick full of fleshy berries or a stick of hard dried bladder looking fruits
If you like to eat poi and taro and enjoy luaus at Hawaiian vacations
or got a room full of odd vining plants crawling all over the walls and ceiling
you already know this family well enough
theres also a bunch of outdoor arum members,
some common and weedy, others very desirable in a carrion sort a way
Heres a few pages of super simplified descriptions at the genera level as an introduction
good luck and have fun learning em all as you travel the nurseries and tropics
Mission Azul