Spoonflower

Don't confuse this native with its invasive relatives: taro (Colocasia esculenta) and malanga (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), which have been widely planted as crops and/or ornamentals in Florida.



Use in a water garden.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

All part of the plant are toxic.

Wet sites. Basin marsh, baygall, hydric hammock, floodplain forest, seepage stream (banks).

• Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
• Pollinated by a chloropid fly through providing a brood site and releasing the pollen onto them.