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UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center

home of the caladium breeding program

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Evidence class: publicly verified operating
Placed at: 2005: first documented year on the map; founding year not recorded
Place: Balm, Hillsborough County
District: Outside the Heartland
Status as of 12 September 2026: Operating; the program reaches its 50th and 51st cultivars in 2024 reporting.
Connections: 3 edges, 3 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.009 (rank 87 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.000 (rank 241) · outside share 0.33
Confidence: High · sources: [GHM] [MAC] (register)

The center's ornamental breeding program supplies the disease resistant varieties the Lake Placid farms grow; it enters the map at the era its documented program record reaches [GHM][MAC].

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Location and lineage

holdsZhanao Dengthe program's breeder, 38 cultivars over more than 20 years2000s to present

Collaboration

collaborationBates Sons & Daughtersthe growers name the new UF cultivars Salsa and Wonderland2020s
collaborationClassic Caladiumsyear round production research with the breederongoing