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Caladium bicolor

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#89 They called me Caladium bicolor, also known as Caladium brongniartii, Caladium gaerdtii, Caladium connaertii, Caladium chantinii, Caladium kochii, Caladium verschaffeltii, Caladium curwadlii, Caladium houlletii, Caladium barraquinii, Caladium leopoldii, Caladium sieboldii, Caladium wightii, Xanthosoma lindenii, Caladium jacquinii, Caladium thelemannii, Caladium eckhartii, Caladium bicolor f. wightii, Caladium bicolor f. chantinii, Caladium bicolor f. barraquinii, Caladium neumannii, Caladium bicolor f. verschaffeltii, Caladium bicolor f. neumannii, Caladium bicolor f. brongniartii, Phyllotaenium lindenii, Caladium lindenii, Alocasia roezlii, Caladium dussii, and Caladium hendersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Gaerdt (I couldn’t find his records), Connaert (I couldn’t find his records), Chantin (I couldn’t find his records), Verschaffelt (I couldn’t find his records), Curwadl (I couldn’t find his records), Houllet (I couldn’t find his records), Barraquin (I couldn’t find his records), Leopold (I couldn’t find his records), Linden (I couldn’t find his records), Thelemann (I couldn’t find his records), Eckhart (I couldn’t find his records), Alfred Neumann, Roezl (I couldn’t find his records), Duss (I couldn’t find his records), Philipp Franz von Siebold, or Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Robert Wight, or William Franklin Wight, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, or Alexandre Brongniart, Karl Koch, Georg Friedrich Koch, Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch, or Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, and George Henderson, Edward George Henderson, Murray Ross Henderson, Norlan C. Henderson, Andrew Augustus Henderson, Archibald Henderson, or Andrew Henderson. They first catalogued me in 1800.

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