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Cherry Tart™ Caladium Bulbs

Cherry Tart™ Caladium Bulbs

Pack Size: 5
$32.95
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  • Grow Zone

    10 - 11

  • Mature Height

    14

  • Mature Width

    19

  • Sun / Shade

    Part Shade, Shade, and Full Sun

  • Bloom Size

    need bloom size meta

  • Tomato Fruit Set

  • Days To Maturity

  • Fruit Weight

  • Soil Tolerance

    Normal, loamy and Poor

  • Moisture

    Moist, well-drained

  • Description / Cherry Tart™ Caladium Bulbs

    Caladium Cherry Tart™ is a tender perennial (Zones 10-12), grown for its dramatic, long-lasting foliage that adds color and texture to the garden, summer into fall. A lance leaved variety, commonly called angel wings, Cherry Tart is dense with broadly cordate leaves on slender, upright stalks. The dazzling bright red leaves have an undulating, broad green margin.

    Caladium Cherry Tart has a compact mounding habit. Shown to best effect when grouped or massed, caladiums add beautiful color and texture to beds, borders, hanging baskets, and containers. They are also an excellent option for underplanting, and the bulbs can be forced and grown indoors as a houseplant.

    Extremely easy to grow and low maintenance, caladiums are tropical plants that thrive in warm temperatures with high humidity. They grow best in shady to dappled sun locations with fertile, organically rich, consistently moist, well-draining soil, having an acidic pH but tolerate a wide range of soils. Caladiums require little maintenance but benefit from monthly fertilization. Cherry Tart is quite sun tolerant, thriving in full sun, especially in northern climates.

    Cherry Tart was released in April 2011 by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. In replicated field and greenhouse trials, tuber yield and pot plant quality were comparable or superior to 'Florida Red Ruffles' and 'Florida Sweetheart', currently the most popular red lance-leaved commercial variety and the most popular lance-leaved variety, respectively.

  • Product Details

    SKU: 35253-PK-5
    Genus: Caladium
    Species: ×hortulanum
    Variety: 'UF 44-4'
    Item Form: Bulb
    Foliage Color: VariegatedMedium GreenPinkRed
    Habit: Mound-shaped
    Light Requirements: Part ShadeShadeFull Sun
    Moisture Requirements: Moist, well-drained
    Soil Type: Normal, loamy, Poor
    Uses:
    • Baskets
    • Border
    • Outdoor
    • Houseplant
    • Containers
    • Foliage Interest
    • Beds
    • Fall Color
    Special Features:
    • Easy Care Plants
    • Variegated
    Hardiness Zones: 10 - 11
    State Shipping Restrictions: GU, PR, VI