What kind of plant is the latest dripping Guanyin?

Dishui Guanyin is a large evergreen herb belonging to the genus Alocasia of Araceae, native to South America. It is a common ornamental plant in tropics and subtropics. It is commonly known as taro, wolf poison, wild taro, etc. As an ornamental plant, it is called Dishui Guanyin. Under the conditions of warm and humid air and sufficient soil moisture, it will drip water from the tip of the leaf or the edge of the leaf, and the flowers bloom like Guanyin, so it is called Dishui Guanyin.

Dripping Guanyin has creeping rhizomes, upright stems on the ground, and adventitious buds grow at the base. Leaves numerous, petioles green or dirty purple, spirally arranged. Petiole and midrib turning black, brown or white. Inflorescences 2 - 3 tufted, cylindrical, usually green, sometimes dirty purple. spathe tube green, ovate or shortly elliptic. Inflorescences aromatic, female inflorescences white, sterile male inflorescences green-white, fertile male inflorescences yellowish. Berry red, ovate. Flowering season four seasons, but in dense shade under the forest often do not flower.

The growth temperature of Dishuiguanyin is 20~30℃, and the lowest temperature can be 8℃. As long as the soil is kept moist, the water is often sprayed, and the shade can still grow normally in summer. The room temperature in winter cannot be lower than 5℃. For tropical rain forest undergrowth plants, so its growth needs high humidity, scattering light is good, shade-tolerant plants like semi-shade environment, should be placed in both shade and ventilated environment.

Dishuiguanyin is produced in tropical and subtropical areas of Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, etc., with an altitude of 1700 meters below. It often grows in patches under tropical rainforest forest margins or wild banana forests in river valleys. It is also cultivated abroad from Bangladesh, northeast India to Malay Peninsula, Indochina Peninsula, Philippines and Indonesia.

Dishuiguanyin rhizome for medicinal purposes, abdominal pain, cholera, hernia, etc. have good effect, but also can cure tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, tracheitis, influenza, typhoid fever, rheumatic heart disease, topical treatment of sore swelling poison, snake bite, scalding fire injury, adjust kerosene topical treatment of neurodermatitis. Poisonous, fresh grass juice itching after skin contact, mistakenly into the eyes can cause blindness, stems, leaves after eating throat itching, swelling, salivation, gastrointestinal pain, nausea, diarrhea, convulsions, severe suffocation, cardiac paralysis and death, folk vinegar plus ginger juice a little boiled oral or cough to detoxify. Rhizomes are rich in starch and can be used as industrial substitutes, but not edible.