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Arums of some kind?

Are they Cala lilies? Unusual to see them growing in clumps like that in that colour. The white arum lilies seem to be the more familiar ones. Are they growing a garden environment or in the wild?

Calla lilies...readily available now in the uk. Could be "Black Forest".
http://www.jparkers.co.uk/zantedeschia-akela-9462

I thought they were a Zantedeschia as well but I didn't reply as I couldn't find one where the flowers are as closed as that. If they were also at Audley End they could be a species that has escaped from the garden that has been there for a long time or they could be from another part of the Araceae family that includes the Arums, Arisaema and quite a few others but all have tubular type flowers. Was there a flower in the middle of the tube like you see on Arums, technically called a spadix?

They were grouped under a Cedar of Lebanon, front right of the main house.
Many clumps spaced in a group about half a tennis court.
My view is they were deliberately planted and nurtured as all around is closely mown.