Caladium 'Florida Sweetheart'

Gary Wilfret's University of Florida lance-leaf, selected in 1979 from a 1977 cross. Rose-coloured with the compact, many-leaved habit of 'Red Frill' but bigger tubers than most lance-leaf types; good for landscapes and containers.

Parentage

Caladium 'Candidum Junior' × Caladium 'Red Frill'

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

✓ Day and night temperature targets, humidity band and light

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