It has been hot and dry, as most of you know, so we have been watering the plants around here. After doing the watering, I stopped to look closely at this particular plant - it is amazing what we can see when we stop to look really closely at the world around us. That was the case here - I noticed the color of the leaves of this plant, then noticed the water drops on the surface. I started to photograph the whole plant and then got closer and closer. I thought that including the whole leaf would be the strongest image, but decided I didn't need to include all of the leaf, for the strongest image. The gardener of the house has forgotten what plant this is... Bunny... Help!
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Your mysterious plant is called "Caladium". There are many variants but your picture shows one of the more colorful varieties. By coincidence, we just bought two about a week ago that we put in pots for the back porch.
Thanks, Jas. You are the one of the last people I would have ever guessed who could identify this variety! You get TWO gold stars for the answer!
Caladiums are popular in our neighborhood. In the spirit of full disclosure, a week ago, we saw some for sale at our local grocery store and thought they would look attractive on our back porch. I had no clue what they were called until we bought the plants and read the little plastic tags. I do know all the names of the trees, shrubs and plants in our yard but that is about the extent of my horticultural knowledge.
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