Arisaema flavum Schott

A herb. It grows about 35 cm high. It has tubers and forms two leaves. The leaves have stalks. These are divided into leaflets like fingers which radiate and are without leaflet stalks. These vary in size. The bract around the flower is yellow outside and purplish inside. It is squat and 2-3.5 cm long. It covers the flowers inside. It is greenish yellow and with a bright yellow re-curved tip. The flowers do not have stalks and are yellow. They form a club shape.

Mountain slopes, farmland edges and roadsides in sub-alpine steppe, at elevations from 3,500-4,300 metres in Tibet. Locally common in Kashmir on humus-rich soils.

The young leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The dried old leaves are cooked as a vegetable. The corm is crushed and dried and ground to a powder. This is then mixed with water and cooked for 30 minutes. The corm or tubers are cooked slowly then eaten. This took 8-10 hours. Caution: The fresh plant is poisonous and needs processing.

It is grown from corms.