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The specific epithet albiflos means "white flower" in English. [2] As a pot plant it has been called "elephant's tongue" and "elephant ear" - for its leaves - or "shaving-brush (or paintbrush) plant" - for its flowers.
Caladium / k ə ˈ l eɪ d i əm / [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. They are often known by the common name elephant ear (which they share with the closely related genera Alocasia, Colocasia, and Xanthosoma), heart of Jesus, [3] and angel wings. There are over 1000 named cultivars of Caladium bicolor from the original ...
Elephant ear plant with yellow blossom Elephant ear plant with blossom. Colocasia is a genus [3] [4] of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Some species are widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions. [1] [5]
Bergenia crassifolia is a species of flowering plant of the genus Bergenia in the family Saxifragaceae. Common names for the species include heart-leaved bergenia, [1] [2] heartleaf bergenia, leather bergenia, [2] winter-blooming bergenia, [3] elephant-ears, [1] elephant's ears, [2] Korean elephant-ear, [4] badan, pigsqueak, [3] Siberian tea, [2] and Mongolian tea.
Gardening pros lay out a complete guide to caring for tropical elephant ear plants indoors, from soil and watering to issues like yellow elephant ear leaves.
Caladium, ornamental plants with arrowhead-shaped leaves originally from South America; Colocasia (taro), a genus of flowering plants native to tropical Polynesia and southeastern Asia; Philodendron giganteum, a species of plant found in the Caribbean and South America; Xanthosoma, a genus native to tropical America cultivated for their starchy ...
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Many other species, including especially Xanthosoma roseum, are used as ornamental plants; in popular horticultural literature these species may be known as ‘ape due to resemblance to the true Polynesian ʻape, Alocasia macrorrhizos, or as elephant ear from visual resemblance of the leaf to an elephant's ear.