Variegated Tapioca (Manihot esculenta Variegata)

Attractive and easy-to-grow, Variegated Tapioca makes an eye-catching plant to use as a gardens focal point. The showy, palmate leaves have creamy-yellow centers with a band of green around the leaf edges. The variegation is stable regardless of environmental conditions and the bright red stems add to its ornamental appeal. With the benefits of being heat and drought tolerant, it performs well as a container plant, or grow it in the garden as an annual in colder zones. Known as cassava in South American countries, the roots are peeled and boiled for cassava meal or tapioca.