Wild arum

Just 10 days ago the wild arum flowers were proudly standing up inviting the tiny flies in to pollinate them.

These flies crawl right down inside the flower to drink the tasty liquid at the bottom and then they cannot get out because they are trapped by the one-way ring of hairs, like a sweep's brush, which they passed on their way in.  

But all is not lost;  once they have fertilised the arum with pollen from the last flower they visited, the flower relaxes the trapping hairs and the flies can fly out again and repeat the process at the next wild arum they visit.

But once it has been pollinated the handsome sheath droops, the leaves get nibbled 
and the whole plant retires from view.

until August, when a spike of red berries will appear.