디펜바키아 오이르스테디-[정명] Dieffenbachia oerstedii Schott
Dieffenbachia oerstedii ranges from Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco) mostly along the Caribbean slope in Central America in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica (where it occurs on both slopes) and west-central Panama. The species also occurs on the Pacific slope of El Salvador (Department of Ahuachapan). The species ranges from sea level to 1260 m in Tropical dry, Tropical moist, Tropical wet, Premontane wet and Premontane rain forest life zones. It is a herbaceous perennial grows 30-75cm tall (usually less than 50 cm) with stem erect or partially reclining, often conspicuously clustered with numerous plants. The leaves are ovate to narrowly ovate or ovate-lanceolate or rarely oblanceolate, 14-22 x 4-14 cm, upper surface matte and sub-velvety to weakly glossy, dark green, frequently splotched light or medium green or with white areas especially near midrib (all variations frequently found in a single population); lower surface matte to weakly glossy (epidermal cells raised and sometimes translucent).
This species is characterized by its small stature (generally less than 1 m tall); frequently clustered stems; and sharply C-shaped petioles that are whitish at the base and sheathed mostly ⅓–¾ their length, with the sheath obscurely free-ending and inequilaterally with at least one side usually merely rounded or acute rather than auriculate. Also characteristic are the moderately thin, usually small, ovate-lanceolate blades, which are generally acute to rounded or truncate basally and matte or only weakly glossy adaxially.
This species blooms throughout the year, but with the heaviest flowering at the end of the dry season and the first part of the rainy season, April to September. Fruit maturation is more regularly scattered throughout the year. The berries are bright red, globose, with 13 to 43 per spadix, 4–6 mm diameter.
Dieffenbachia oerstedii care | Travaldo's blog
Dieffenbachia oerstedii Schott | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science