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Cuckoo-pint

Arum maculatum

Derbyshire.

A plant with many names including Lords-and-ladies and Jack in the Pulpit

It should really be pronounced with the pint to rhyme with 'lint'. Pint is short for pintle an old word for penis! It flowers at the time we hear the first Cuckoo.

 

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Uploaded on May 6, 2024
Taken on May 4, 2023