General Information
Private Dancer has bright chartreuse or yellowish green leaves, heavily marked and finely sectored dark mahogany red to dark maroon red with purple leaf vein. Some leaf blades exhibit variable chimera depths, giving many intermediate colours, part pink and part green, and it is radically interrupted by lime or violet red to maroon red sectored and stripes. Leaves are purple underneath and stem is light purplish in colour. It could be used for close planting in garden beds.
| Salient features | |
| Plant Height | 62.000 cm |
| Number of leaves | 32.444 |
| Number of branches | 5.333 |
| Stem girth | 0.593 cm |
| Length of leaf with petiole | 17.333 cm |
| Petiole length | 4.333 cm |
| Diameter of leaf stalk | 0.300 cm |
| Leaf width | 9.667 cm |
| Length of leaf without petiole | 13.333 cm |
Source-
- Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Ela, Old Goa, Goa
