What are the bulbs?

Caladium bulbs are organs for food storage of kalladium or elephant ear, plant, colored native of South and Central America. Most of the Kaladium bulbs for ornamental plantings are now grown in the United States in the United States in Lake Placid, Florida, which distributes bulbs around the world. These bulbs can be used to produce new plants in ornamental gardens and are more reliable by spreading than seeds. This plant prefers open areas of forests and banks of the river and is sleeping and loses its clearly colored leaves when there is insufficient water. It prefers warm and humid environments with bright, indirect light. These bulbs consist of scale or modified leaf bases, which form a number of thin layers around the central core. The onion swells with starches and sugars during the vegetative phase, and during a shrinking or dry weather during which the plant uses stored food for survival.

Kaladium race is originally originally from South America, especially in Brazil, as well as parts of Central America, but most commercially produced bulbs are now grown in Lake Placid in Florida called the "capital of Kaladium". This city in the US produces a wide range of varieties in Kaladium, including a number of plants of decorative leaves or various colors and dwarf cultivars. While the wild caladium usually has leaves that are mostly green, these decorative garden varieties can be bright pink or spotted red and white and may not have almost any green areas at all.

Garden use bulbs are supplied in the sleeping state and planted if the temperature is at least 50 ° Fahrenheit at night (10 ° C). They produce leaves relatively fast in the right cultivation conditions and new bulbs can be filed for growth next year, but can produce a slightly smaller plant. White folivace bulbs work best for gardeners who wish to save bulbs fromone year to another.

Caladium naturally grows in open parts of the forest or on the banks of rivers, where indirect sunlight and water are easily accessible. If the weather is too cold or dry, the plant enters the sleeping state, loses the leaves and draws all its nutrition from the bulb. Once the conditions have improved, the Kaladium will restore growth. To make the Kaladium attractive throughout the year, the gardeners in the cold climate may need to be planted in pots and bring them in when the weather becomes inhospitable.