English: Chinese evergreen.
Region: Asia, New Guinea.
Habitat: tropical and subtropical regions; humid, shady tropical forest; intolerance of cold.
Use: luck-bringing ornamental; cultivated, hybridized, and bred into a wide array of cultivars; poisonous due to calcium oxalate crystals.

Botany:Herb; evergreen; perennial.
Stem: erect or decumbent and creeping, may root at the nodes;
Leaves: in a crown of wide leaf blades; variable silver and green;
Inflorescence: spadix; short zone of female flowers near the base; wider zone of male flowers nearer the tip.
Flowers: unisexual.
Fruit: fleshy berry; ripens red, a thin layer covering one large seed.