4" Caladium evergreen This sweetheart of a plant

This sweetheart of a plant is a native of southeast Africa

Bright red stems and occasional pale green flower spires add to the colorful mix

and cup and cradle each new leaf coming out above them before letting them go off on their own

Underleaves are washed in a coral blush

It's kind of a mop of gently arcing fronds made up of lustrous

4" Caladium evergreen This sweetheart of a plantThe point of Caladiums is those big wonderful leaves! Heart shaped, soft, satiny, and quilted, they come riotously painted in shades of deep scarlet, rose pink, bubblegum pink, cream and white, dark and light greens. All these colors combine in wonderful combinations, often with the brightly painted veins contrasting with the leaf colors, originating at the spot where the petiole attaches to the leaf and fanning down the leaf. Seen a lot at Christmas