Dumb cane
Dieffenbachia seguine (Jacq.) Schott
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.7 m
- wide
- 76 cm
Araceae
Also called Tuftroot, Dumbcane
Formerly Arum regnium, Arum seguine, Caladium maculatum, Caladium seguine, and 51 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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Caribbean to S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension green, white; Wikipedia white
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Hoja de coche, Hoja elegante blanca, Millonaria
- Portuguese
- Comigo-ninguém-pode
- Chinese (China)
- 花叶万年青, 彩叶万年青
- Czech
- dieffenbachie pestrá
- Chinese
- 花葉萬年青, 彩叶黛粉叶, 彩叶黛粉芋
- Russian
- Диффенбахия пятнистая
- Japanese
- カスリソウ
- root
- kann wivyé, kann bwilé
- Swedish
- prickblad
- Lithuanian
- Dėmėtoji difenbachija
- Thai
- สาวน้อยประแป้ง
- Polish
- difenbachia Seguiny
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 Plant Toolbox, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Dieffenbachia seguine (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.