This aroid keeps turning up in my garden each wet season. It was there when I bought the place. Doesn't seem to multiply much and doesn't seem to develop any viable seed.
Mystery aroid
The flowers aren't anything special. They barely open up and then shortly after the whole stalk falls over. Never had anything that looked like seedlings from them.
tropicbreeze,
check out caladiums.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57281/
taj
Thanks Taj12, looks like it's the one. Fairly large for a Caladium, or for what I'm used to. Funnily enough, today I was in Bunnings and saw similar looking Caladiums but they were tiny and about a dozen of them to each pot.
Your plant is in a bigger "planter". It can grow as big as nature allows :).
I just keep trying to get tropic to send me his yard...I'll take his weeds! LOL
Trina, if the climate could be bundled with the yard you wouldn't have to worry about moving plants inside. Just set up everything outside and there it stays all year. Only thing technical thing to worry about is maintaining the irrigation system through the dry season - water bore and sprinkler system. But yes, the weeds would have to be part of the package.
yeah but your weeds look so much better than mine for the most part, I am inundated with milkweed....the vining type that just goes everywhere and has nasty sap....the neighbor thought it was pretty and planted some on purpose, meanwhile the rest of us around her are spraying the crap out of it with weed killer, I think of the elderly lady next door finds one more vine in her rose bed she's gonna go beat her to death
I leave the upright milkweed alone along the ditch. It smells so good and is quite pretty. I didn't plant it though, so please don't beat me, lol.
tropicbreeze - the caladium you have there is called Candidum
Trina, 'when all else fails .........' One weed I have which mightn't bee too bad if it wasn't such an invasive weed is Snake Weed, Stachytapheta species (there's a few of them). Originally introduced as an ornamental garden plant it's gone ballistic and is taking over everywhere. It flowers and seeds constantly but our dry season slows it right down. In a watered garden it just keeps going.
3jsmom31, if you're happy to leave it in your ditch, then I'm happy to leave it in your ditch (and not mine). :O)
Thanks for that ID Caladiums4less. Checked it out and got:
Caladium hortulanum
Caladium bicolor ( Candidum Caladium )
Caladium 'Candidum'
Caladium Candidum, 'Caladium x hortulanum'
There seemed to be more references to it being Caladium Candidum, 'Caladium x hortulanum', is that the right one?