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Caladium Araceae Elephant Ears
Bicolor Varieties. Gorgeous arrow-leaved foliage plants for small gardens in the South or sheltered areas where summer temperatures are not likely to drop below 60 degrees for long. The patterns, colors, and contours of the leaves get fancier every year. Many are hybridized for larger and larger size, but specialists also offer a good selection of dwarfs that will stay under eight inches. Among them:
Caladium humboldti—one of the most striking members of the family
‘Candidum, Jr.’—Bushy low version of the standard favorite with green-netted, white leaves.
humboldti—A gemlike species for the connoisseur with willowy stems topped by diminutive deep-green leaves splotched with silvery transparent white between the center veins and the edge. Needs more humidity than the bicolor hybrids.
‘Little Rascal’—Leaf more lance-shaped, wine-red.
‘Miss Marveen’—Pearly-white tinged and blotched with pink over heavy drab green.
‘Mrs. Arno Nehrling’—Bronzy-green, red veins.