The flowers of the diefembaquia

It’s a plant with long leaves and a wide variety of shades of combinations of green and white in its leaves.
It’s originally from Brazil.

It’s a plant suitable for living indoors, since it must be in semi-shadow. It supports the clarity of the sun but not its direct exposure to it. Its leaves burn when they are directly under the sun.

It must receive moisture in its floors to maintain the beauty of its leaves.
You have to be careful when handling it because its sap has a toxic component such as calcium oxalate. For humans and even for animals, it can cause from mild inflammation of the conjunctivae or skin, to significant poisoning and death.

My plants have all flowered, the diefenbachias decided to bloom all together, those that are on the floor and those that are in pots. I don’t know why.

But its flowers are not very showy or very durable, they have a long stem called a spadix, at the end of it a spathe opens very similar to the petal of a flower and a white or beige appendage emerges under the spathe. This appendix has a geometric shape relief.

I took several photographs of each flower so that you can see in detail the flower of this plant that not many have the opportunity to see. Maybe and I suppose it’s because it’s not very attractive or because it remains open for a very short time, then the white appendage is dried and dried and there it remains, until the next flowering.

All photos are of my property and were taken with my blu phone.