Walking iris?

http://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/ornamentals/walking-iris.html

Writtersblock, Funny I was given a division last year of what is supposed to be a walking iris. I put it in shade and kept it moist. It kept trying to root but the roots just kept rotting away. I've had to repot it so many freaking times as well as changed it's sun exposure. Only recently that I transfered it to a small terracotta pot with barely any soil and hot sun has it established good roots and put out some leaves. Maybe you can tell me if it's in fact a walking iris? I can post a pic

Bossyvossy, Is a LA Iris a Louisiana iris? That's all that pops up when I put in a search for it. A brugmansia would get much too tall from my experience.

Yeah, post a pic, Joes, and someone should be able to tell you. What does the flower look like?

ETA Oh, I was down at Mounts last week and they had some kind of iris--maybe the kind called blue flag some places, although not what I know as blue flag--growing out in the middle of a pond under the bridge.

Yes, louisiana

I've discovered that whatever this plant is, it likes to dry out very quickly, It's roots rot easily, it can grow perfectly fine in an orchid mix, and it can survive with little to no roots for a long time LOL

After it's roots kept rotting I started to wonder if perhaps it was epiphytic so I put two little pieces in a separate terra cotta pot in a mixture of lava rock, spagnum and bark and it has anchored itself down into the mixture and it's growing just fine too.

Gingers like shade and moisture

I have had good luck with cannas in wet areas. Not sure about the light requirements.

Hamm, it's hard to tell from the photo at that stage of growth. They are pretty hardy and will stand a wide range of conditions, but it's odd that yours objected to moisture.

Iris virginica is the one I was trying to think of before, which is an aquatic plant and a FL native:

https://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-directory/iris-virginica/

Cannas love those conditions. We even have native yellow cannas that grow in the swamps.

I thought cannas preferred full sun?

Taro, likes it wet and shady and you can eat the roots.

Cannas don’t flower as much in bright shade but they also don’t get as crispy. Since I grow for foliage, i favor partly shady locations

What about a native leather fern?

You could use marsh hibiscus, but it dies back in the winter. Papyrus will grow in partial shade in wet areas, but it doesn't bloom. It is very showy though. Joe Pye weed is gorgeous, but it also dies back in the winter.

Mistiaggie, Those native leather ferns are really impressive in the wild but they get huge here!

Glen, Taro esculenta I'm sure would do great. 'black magic' looks nice in the photos I find online. I wonder if it's leaves would be edible cooked like the green variety.

Meg, Cannas would be beautiful but I've never had luck with the tubers sold in the stores and like others have mentioned, I've only seen them grow well here in direct sun.

Dirtygardener, your marsh hibiscus suggestion makes me wonder if the distantly related abulitons would do well. I've no experience with them but I've read they will bloom with indirect light. Has anyone grown Abuliton?

https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/99314/#b

Carolb, I've always admired hedychium! They're very tropical looking

Hedychium would be good. Many are very fragrant.

Black magic is not eatable, all parts are poisonous, but they look really cool and grow well with little to no problems.

Florida_Joes, from what I remember when I grew abutilons way back long ago, they don't like wet feet. Most hibiscus don't like wet feet either, just the swamp hibiscus.

Glenn, all Colocasia escuelentas are edible, but some don't taste very good. Other species of Colocasia are not edible. The corms and leaves must be cooked to neutralize the oxalic acid in them. Otherwise, your mouth is going to be burning like mad! I was reading that some of the ornamental ones like "black magic" have really tough leaves unless you pick them when they are still rolled up, before they unfurl, and they don't make corms. I think if you want the edible kind, either order some from Hawaii or buy the malanga (long corm) or eddoe (round, hair corm) from a hispanic market, or some stores have them, and plant those. I have the eddoe variety, the purple stemmed taro. A friend gave me baby plants and they grew corms last year. I'm not eating them, though, because I want them to multiply.

All the alocasias are poisonous, but some of the Xanthasomas are edible. I have edible ones in my yard. No edible roots, you eat the leaves.

I probably wouldn't be trying to eat them any time soon but I guess I'm sort of a prepper in that I really like having the option there just in case I ever really need to. Lol

DG I think it was Dave Wilson nursery that I picked up that black magic was listed that every part was poisonous. It could have been somewhere else any way I do have it marked down that way it my landscaping notes. On a side note I don't eat any taro since I'm allergic to the whole lot. Joe getting some starter roots from a grocery store for taro is a great way to go if you want to make sure it's edible. There is nothing wrong with having eatable plants that the average person would have no idea that it is food. If we ever have a shtf it could save your life or your family

Joe, I live in a place where I have very little sun except in one spot. where all my veggies would be stolen if I planted them there, so I plant a lot of ornamental edibles, or things that look like weeds, so no one bothers them. Remember, you can eat sweet potato leaves as well as the roots, and they make great groundcovers.

Glen, I imagine that that plant was grown with systemic pesticides, so that would make all parts poisonous.