Caladium Bicolor Houseplant

Caladium having tight leathery leaves and remaining fine leaved and delicate.

Caladium bicolor houseplant. Their green pink red white and silver variegated leaves complement plants such as begonias hostas and elephant ears. A northern or eastern window is usually the best exposure. Caladiums caladium bicolor add color to your garden from spring through fall. How to care for caladium indoors.

A mass of caladium is an explosion of whites greens reds and pinks that are mottled veined and striped. Elongated pink leaf plates with wavy edges and a whimsical green pattern from a distance resemble butterfly wings. This plant is known as angel wings elephant ears the heart of jesus and angel tubers. The other group of hybrids called lance leaved caladiums has its dominant genes from caladium picturatum.

The variety belongs to the species bicolor. Caladiums are tropical perennials that have almost unparalleled foliage and make showy houseplants. Like all caladiums the plant attracts attention with a particular color of the foliage. Many other common names are used for these hybrids including the rosebud frieda hemple lord derby and a fair few others.

Size wise the larger tubers will produce larger leaves. They have large arrow shaped and paper thin leaves that come in a striking array of colors and patterns. In wild it has plain green surface with random red and white spots. They are unique and by its nature and by choice of varieties and the impression in the interior.

The plant genus caladium is not short of varieties which consists of over 1000. Dig up tubers in the fall after first frost set in wood shavings or peat and store in a dry location 45 f or warmer. Indoor caladium plants require a medium light area with protection from midday sun which will scorch the leaves. Humidity is crucial to caladium houseplant care as the tubers are native to south american tropical forests and produce seasonal foliage during the rainy warm season.

Those hybrids are called fancy leaved caladiums. X hortulanum but other species and hybrids are sometimes available. Caladium houseplant care description. There are thousands of named cultivars of this species sometimes listed as c.

Most are hybrids from the c. However the shape of the leaves also deserves attention. Bulb country or region of origin. Caladium bicolor a brazilian species is the most common of several species in this genus in the arum family araceae that are used as ornamentals.

A caladium is a tuberous rooted perennial that originally came from south america. Central and south america bulb storage. The beautiful ornamental foliage makes the extra care required to grow and then re grow a caladium each year well worth it. Whole plant traits.

More round or heart shaped leaves are heritage of caladium bicolor.