Caladium
a genus of endogenous plants, the typical one of the family caladiex. They are cultivated in greenhouses here, and flourish in warmer parts of the world. The leaves of the Caladium sagittifolium are boiled and eaten as a vegetable in the West Indies.
The rootstocks or rhizomes of others are eaten there and in the Pacific, the process of cooking destroying the dangerous acridity.