There was a patch of wild arum self-seeded into the chicken orchard, so I dug it up as I was worried that the berries might be poisonous to chickens. There is a lot of this planet in the hedge bases, but the new woodland does not have any (as a child I usually called wild arum "lords-and-ladies", not knowing that this was a rather crude medieval joke based on the male and female flower shapes).
The bottom of the stem has a type of corm - with fleshy roots that break very easily. I planted them in dark shade in very wet areas of the woodland hoping that the wetness of the soil would compensate for so many roots being broken off.
The one clump gave rise to about 20 separate plants.
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