Caladium
Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Vent.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 46 cm
- wide
- 53 cm
Araceae
Also called Heart of Jesus, Angel Wings
Formerly Alocasia roezlii, Arum bicolor, Arum pulchrum, Arum vermitoxicum, and 87 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. America to Argentina (Salta)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension part, shade; UF/IFAS part
- Height
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–2 ft; UF/IFAS 1–2.5 ft
- Spread
- 30 cm to 76 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -3.9 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -6.7 °C; Wikipedia -1.1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Banderilla sudamericana, Oreja de elefante
- Indonesian
- Keladi
- Portuguese
- Tinhorão, Crote
- Chinese (China)
- 花叶芋, 五彩芋
- Japanese
- カラジウム
- root
- koko shak
- Russian
- Каладиум двухцветный
- Thai
- บอนสี, สาวน้อยประแป้ง, อิเหนา
- Polish
- kaladium dwubarwne, obraźnica dwubarwna
- Danish
- elefantøre
- Chinese
- 五彩芋, 彩葉芋, 红水芋
- French
- Songe fleur
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Caladium bicolor (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.