Very rare and stunning Hapaline appendiculata Ridl is a slender, tuberous, seasonally dormant perennial herb up to 25 cm tall. Leaf blades are ovate to hastate or subsagittate, thinly coriaceous or coriaceous, even on the same plant, pale to dark green, occasionally with various greyish to pale green blotchy or/or cloudy markings adaxially, abaxial surface much paler, sometimes suffused reddish purple in which case primary mid-vein and primary lateral veins on abaxial surface purple-red.
The 'Tricolor' form produces leaf blades with highly variegated colour pattern between dark green, through lime and light green to white.
The genus was originally given the name Hapale by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott in 1857, but it was changed to Hapaline a year later when it was discovered that a genus of South American marmosets already had been assigned the name in 1811. Hapaline is unique in that it is the only genus in the tribe Caladieae found in the Old World.
Hapaline appendiculata 'Tricolor'
All our Hapaline appendiculata 'Tricolor' plants are approx. 15-20 cm tall (not including the pot height).
