Caladium 'Candidum Junior'

The Florida Sweetheart patent says it is believed to be a field mutation of 'Candidum'. It has more leaves, is shorter and has whiter interveins than 'Candidum', but produces less tuber mass.

Parentage

Caladium 'Candidum'

A sport or selection: wholly its one parent.

Wild ancestry

Its wild ancestors are not traced yet; the family tree in Plantistry can look them up.

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✓ Its wild ancestors' native conditions, combined by their share

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Parentage from published registrations and growers' records; the family tree in the app shows each step's source.