B. ‘Hainan's Light’

Selected by Dai-Ke Tian from Shanghai Chen-shan Botanical Garden and Ming-Zhong Huang from Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, PR China. Applied for on December 5, 2025 and approved on February 4, 2026.

This excellent rhizomatous upright individual was selected out by the registrants from a natural hybrid discovered in Hainan Island of China in

2020. It can grow up to 100 cm tall and 60 cm wide at maturity. The light maroon stipules are ca. 12-17 × 47 mm and the olive petiole with a maroon tint can grow up to 28 cm long. The lanceolate to ovate leaf blade can grow up to 33 × 29 cm with a cordate base that sometimes has overlapped lobes, a den-ticulate and ciliate margin, and an acuminate apex.

The upper leaf surface is dark olive with a wide silver-green band. The lower leaf surface is maroon with a wide pale green band. The white to whitish pink 4-tepaled male flowers and 5-tepaled female flowers are few on a ca. 2-4.5 cm long peduncle, male flower buds fall before opening.

• Classification: Cultivar
• Plant Type: Rhizomatous - upright jointed
• Origin: Asia, China
• Originator: Dai-Ke Tian
• Date of Origin: 2026