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(Last Modified On 10/25/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/25/2012)
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Species
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CALADIUM BICOLOR (Ait.) Vent.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Descr. Cels. PI. 30. 1800.
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Synonym
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Arum bicolor Ait. Hort. Kew. 3:316. 1789.
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Description
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Plant arising from a small, depressed-globose rhizome; petioles very slender, 3 or more times as long as the blade, short-vaginate; blades broadly sagittate-ovate, mostly 10-20 cm. long, acute or abruptly acute, peltate far above the base, the basal lobes obtuse, directed downward or slightly outward, separated by a broad, open, triangular sinus, the blades thin, glaucescent beneath, spotted above with white, pink, red, pale yellow or other colors; tube of the spathe ovoid, green out- side, greenish white within, the blade about twice as long as the tube, cuspidate, white; pistillate portion of the spadix short-cylindroid, yellowish or pale orange, the fertile staminate portion twice as long as the pistillate, cylindric-fusiform.
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Note
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Original habitat somewhat uncertain, but the plant is probably native of the Amazonian region, perhaps also of the Guianas. Most material in herbaria is taken from cultivated plants or from those naturalized about human settlements. Panama. Cultivated commonly for ornament, and thoroughly naturalized at some places in the lowlands, particularly in Mount Hope Cemetery, Canal Zone. Called Corazon de Jesu's in Panama, and "Wild Coco" by the West Indians resident in the Canal Zone. The plant is well known in cultivation in the North, being highly esteemed for its delicately colored foliage. The leaves exhibit great variation in their coloring, so much so that it is usually difficult to find two plants whose leaves can be said to be exactly or even approximately alike. This species is the so-called "Fancy-leaved Caladium" of the United States. The plant of the same family-but with larger, green leaves-grown there, as well as in tropical America, for ornament under the name "Caladium" or "Elephant-ear" is Colocasia antiquorum Schott, native in the Old World tropics.
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