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Flower
Caladium
Caladium bicolor
Grown for its bold painted leaves rather than flowers. Plant tubers in warm soil (May); great summer shade color.
Recommended uses
- Shade beds
- Containers
- Plant type
- Foliage plant
- Annual / perennial
- Annual
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Deciduous
- Sun
- Part shade
- Shade tolerance
- High
- Water needs
- Medium
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Bloom color
- Pink, Red, White, Green
- Mature height
- 1–2 ft
- Mature width
- 1–2 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- Medium
- Drought tolerance
- Low