Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Plants and Gardens #118, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Synandrospadix vermitoxicus is the botanical name for the 'Worm Killer'. It's one of those plants that was named by the indigenous people because they used it medicinally to treat intestinal worms (talk about kill or cure, huh??) So it doesn't actually kill earthworms as I first thought. It has great looking leaves as well as the big, spotty flowers. Then it puts on orange seeds like the coonties do.

I got it last summer from Tropiflora, and they've had them on special a couple of times since then, so check them out.

Definitely going to have to divide out some of the tubers in this pot of Caladiums this winter. Carolyn Wharton going to town. My Gloriosa Lilies are jumping up now, too. Appeared last week, and they're over 2ft. tall now!