Caladiums [Caladium bicolor (Ait.) Vent., syn. Caladium×hortulanum Birdsey, Araceae Juss.] are tropical foliage plants asexually propagated from tubers. Most of the world s tubers are produced in Highlands County in Central Florida on the muck and sandy soils around Lake Placid and Sebring. The industry plays a vital role in the local economy, with a wholesale crop worth $11–14 million annually, produced on 567 ha (Bell and Wilfret, 1998). The caladium industry also plays an important sociological role in Highlands County. Lake Placid is known as the caladium capital of the world and caladiums are an integral part of the art and history of the community. The area celebrated its 12th annual caladium festival in Aug. 2002. The Univ. of Florida initiated a caladiumbreeding program in 1976 at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (REC)–Bradenton under the leadership of Gary Wilfret. The program s goal was to develop new cultivars for the industry, which had not had new introductions since the 1950s. In addition to developing new landscape-type cultivars, the program has sought to develop cultivars better adapted for container production, with shorter petioles, multi-eyed tubers, and increased leaf production. Twelve cultivars have been released since 1976: ‘Florida Cardinal (Wilfret, 1988a), ‘Florida Roselight (Wilfret, 1988b), ‘Florida Sunrise (Wilfret, 1988c), ‘Florida Elise (Wilfret, 1991a), ‘Florida Fantasy (Wilfret, 1991b), ‘Florida Sweetheart (Wilfret, 1991c), ‘Florida Calypso (Wilfret, 1995), ‘Florida Irish Lace (Wilfret, unpublished release in 1999), ‘Florida Red Ruffles (Wilfret, unpublished release in 1999), ‘Florida Blizzard (Harbaugh et al., 2002), ‘Florida White Ruffles (Miranda et al., 2002), and ‘Florida Whitewater (Wilfret et al., 2002). ‘Florida Moonlight represents the first release from the Univ. of Florida in the ‘June Bride type, characterized by large, white, heart-shaped leaves and white primary veins. ‘June Bride , although producing attractive foliage, represents only 1% of caladium tuber production in Florida (Bell and Wilfret, 1988), in part because of poor performance in containers. ‘Florida Moonlight (Fig. 1) has demonstrated the potential to produce a superior number of leaves that emerge sooner compared to ‘June Bride , and to produce an attractive plant in a 10-cm container when buds are excised (Evans et al., 1992). In addition, ‘Florida Moonlight has demonstrated superior vigor to ‘June Bride when grown in outdoor landscapes.