English: Chinese evergreen; Poison dart plant.
Synonyms: Aglaonema elegans; Aglaonema maculatum; Aglaonema robustum; Aglaonema warburgii
Region: Asia, New Guinea, China, Philippines, northeastern Sulawesi; introduced to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Comoros, Chagos Archipelago, India, Bangladesh, Cook Islands.
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.
BotanyType: herb; evergreen; perennial.
Stem: erect or decumbent, 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.