IDENTIFIER Tropical leaves

Can you tell your Caladium from your Codiaeum from your Coleus? Whether navigating a South American rainforest, or the houseplants section of your local garden centre, our handy guide will help you turn over a new leaf

Monstera adansonii Spotting this popular houseplant, aka the Swiss Cheese plant, is easy cheesy, with its holey leaves. But don’t try eating: it’s toxic to humans and pets. Anthurium regale Up there with Paddington as a favourite thing from the Peruvian forests. Given its metre-wide leaves in the wild, probably rivals him in size, too. Monstera albo variegate The white is due to a lack of chlorophyll, thanks to genetic mutation. All white (or partly white) now? They can still change to non-variegated leaves. Philodendron xanadu Now singing Olivia Newton-John? Suitably, it was an Aussie nursery that called it Xanadu. Open your eyes and see its lush green leaves. Codiaeum variegato Sometimes known as ‘Joseph’s coat’, because of the colours that may appear on the leaves: “red and yellow and green and pink” (to misquote the musical). Caladium fast flash Like…

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