Caladium Bicolor White Christmas
White christmas caladiums have very large leaves with dominant wide green veins on a white background with undefined green borders.
Caladium bicolor white christmas. Prized for its highly decorative leaves caladium white christmas angel wings is a tuberous perennial with lush heart shaped silvery white leaves adorned with striking dark green veins and edges. Do not plant the tubers outside until the night temperature average 60 f. Pronounced dark green veining intensifies the impressive foliage of this full attractive plant not to mention it performs beautifully with other white cultivars other caladiums or in groups of three or more. Regular watering will keep them growing all season.
White christmas caladium bulbs are tropical foliage plants that are easy to grow in landscaping pots and planters. Caladiums are excellent choices to add color texture and form to shady areas like most plants caladiums grow best in fertile well drained soil. The large heart shaped leaves of white christmas caladium are edged in bright green and have bold red centers. White christmas is white leaf with pronounced green central veins and no pinking.
White christmas caladium is a dense herbaceous annual with a mounded form. The leaves are decorated with colorful shading veins margins or markings. Good in mostly shade situations. Bright white caladium bulbs for sale online white christmas.
Plant database entry for fancy leaf caladium caladium white christmas with 27 images and 25 data details. Caladium bicolor araceae family synonym. Caladium white christmas on the other hand is an attractive cultivar of caladium bicolor which is synonymous with caladium x hortulanum. White christmas is an old very hearty caladium variety that is considered tall in height 2 5 ft.
Over 1 000 named varieties and some newer ones are sun tolerant. An ornamental herbaceous and perennial plant. Bring the joy and cheer of christmas to your garden all summer long with the large white leaves of caladium white christmas. Used for color in shady to part shady are in the late spring and summer landscape.
Caladium tubers seldome overwinter in the ground except in zones 10 and 11. Use these convenient icons to share this page on various social media platforms. Green veined and edged white leaves. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage this is a relatively low maintenance plant and should not require much pruning except when necessary such as to remove dieback.
Exotic and showy caladiums are grown for their colorful heart or arrow shaped leaves. Glowing in full shade this luminous foliage plant is terrific to add color and drama to shady. Close share this page. Inconspicuous calla type flowers appear in summer but they are usually hidden by the leaves.
Caladiums can be potted up in early spring and kept in the greenhouse to get an early start on spring growth or directly planted once soil is warm and danger of frost is past.