Caladium (Elephant Ear)

A common indoor plant and wonderful plant, which is known as Caladium plant. Scientific name of this plant is “Caladium Hortulanum” and it is known “Elephant Ear” plant as its common name. Caladium plant belongs from family of “Araceae” and it helps to decorate indoors or outdoors of house. Leaves of this plant are shaped like heart and these types of plants are variable in color like red, green, white and red or white shade in green.

For well growing of Caladium plant, it needs well-drained and good quality based soil. Caladium types of plant loves sunlight as all indoor plants, but it also need shade because of direct sunlight can break its growth. It must be need water regularly and soil is being moistly always. If this plant is growing in direct sunlight, then it must watering daily either it can be dead for dry soil. It needs regular fertilizing mostly four or five days in a week. It needs above 10°C temperature for its growth; in Winter season it needs to store an area where temperature being above 10°C.