Herbaceous tropical plant

Ornamental outlook with delicate triangular-shaped foliage

Variegated leaves

Maroon veins on a bright green base

Resembling butterfly wings and swallowtails

The leaves will flutter in the wind

Like thousands of butterflies took flight

All at once

But remaining at one place

Fluttering and hovering

In all eternity…

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