Caladium bicolor (Ait.) Vent.

 
  • 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 IPNI) : 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.
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Caladium bicolor. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.

Botanical Description

India Distribution

World Distribution

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