I have this but dont know what is this? Is this E.E. or Philodendron?
Kaleem
Need your help????
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Anthurium?
Caladium lindenii magnificum was once called Xanthosoma lindenii magnificum but then put in the caladium group.
bwilliams
Thank you so much for the name. Is this dangerous? I googled the name and they are saying this is herb? Can we eat this?
Kaleem
gumlla...Brian is correct, but I've never heard of eating it before.
They can be a bit trickier to grow than normal alocasias. I have 2 large ones but really struggle with them. Occasionally I fear they're dead, and when I finally accept they're goners, they throw up several new leaves. You'll see them listed as the Xanthosoma lindenii most often, but advanced websites also add the caladium term (although they are much larger than normal caladiums)
Brian, if you have a trick to keep these healthy, please share....usually the normal tropicals don't have a problem here in Florida, but this one frustrates me.
I believe the trick of this one and Caladium bicolor rubicundrum is they like a lot of water but not really stagnated water. So along a stream or were they keep their feet wet. I have seen Caladium magnificum 8 feet tall with huge leaves and it looks totally amazing at this size and the rubicundrum at 6 feet tall with huge colocasia like leaves. In both cases grown in a humid greenhouse with wet feet and moving water. Its a bit hard to give them this kind of situation but life changing to see them this well grown.
ah haaahhhh.....now that's very interesting....I figured maybe I was keeping them too wet(?) but even my normal caladiums can stand in water here in Florida if their leaves are dry. I think the sitting stagnant water may be the problem, although they don't sit for long, but if I can incorporate either my magnifcums or rubicundrums into the moving water of my pond, then maybe I'll have a different situation. I'm one who experiments outside of the box with plants anyway, so it's worth a try. I'll DMail you to see if anything changes. Between the drought, immense high heat, and then the flooding tropical storm the past few days, there are a few things in my yard that aren't their normal happy selves (including my Brian Williams alocasia, which up to this point I had always bragged about being such a trooper no matter what the enviroment) But the rubicundrums and magnifcums have struggled all along, yep, even here in a real live tropical enviroment. All other alocasias and colocasias do just fine.
This advice has really sparked my interest, I'll let you know how it goes...