Hitchhiker elephant ear
Remusatia vivipara is a rupicolous or epiphytic herb that grows up to 50 cm tall, arising from an underground tuber around 2 to 4 cm in diameter and coloured vivid red. The leaf is solitary, is broad and peltate, 10 to 40 cm long and 5 to 30 cm across, with a petiole up to 40 cm long. Spathe is leathery, 10 to 13 cm long with an ovoid tube which is green. Spadix is around 3.5 cm long, clavate and creamy white with the flowers unisexual and congested, female at base, male at tip, separated by sterile flowers in the middle. Fruits a cluster of berries.