caladium

noun

1. Any of the genus Caladium of flowering plants, especially an ornamental cultivar of Caladium bicolor.

   “The vegetation was most luxuriant, comprising enormous forest trees, as well as a variety of ferns, caladiums, and other undergrowth, and abundance of climbing rattan palms.”

   “And everywhere Dominican girls in tight-fitting rayon hung heavy in doorways lined with caladium.”