• Family : ARACEAE
  (Arum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
• Basionym : Arum bicolor Aiton
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Vent.
• Common name : Heart of Jesus
• Vernacular name : Varnachembu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Now brought into gardens as an ornament. Also as an escape
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Satara district
• Native : South America
• World Distribution : Cultivated in Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014- Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., 1983. The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2); Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Caladium bicolor. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description