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A genus of about 70 species of large, evergreen, mainly rhizomatous, sometimes tuberous-rooted perennials, found in tropical forest and sunny, open or shaded, usually damp sites by streams and marshes in South and Southeast Asia. They are cultivated for their large, usually peltate, heavily veined, oblong to ovate, arrow-shaped leaves, which are often marked with black, dark violet, or bronze, and have cylindrical leaf stalks. In frost-free areas, grow in a shady border, in moderately fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil in partial shade. This variety grows wild here in South Louisiana in standing water in ditches by roadsides. They are rated hardy to about 50°, but here they die with a freeze, and easily come back from the roots.
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