Phyllotaenium lindenii André has beautiful dark green, ornamental foliage with highly contrasting white veins and prominent lobes. It is a terrestrial herb with stem more or less globose and fully subterranean. Petiole is flattened above, green with purple stripes, sparsely covered with a tangled, reddish-brown scruffy indument. Leaf lamina are sagittate, not peltate, the veins are variegated, cream to pale green above.
This plant has been initially classified as a Phyllotaenium, then as a Caladium, then as a Xanthosoma, to finally being classified back as a Phyllotaenium.
Phyllotaenium lindenii (aka Xanthosoma lindenii)
Phyllotaenium lindenii (aka Xanthosoma lindenii) comes in following sizes:
S - is ca. 25 cm tall and comes in a ⌀14 cm pot.
M - is ca. 35 cm tall and comes in a ⌀15 cm pot.
L - is ca. 45 cm tall and comes in a ⌀21 cm pot.
XL - is ca. 55 cm tall and comes in a ⌀24 cm pot.
