Here's another shot from my Puerto Rico trip a two years ago. Though the weather is warming up here in DC, these photos aren't helping, as even a touch of spring weather can't compare with the thought of being on a tropical island. I'm suffering withdrawal!
Anyhoo, you don't need to go to Vieques to see this plant. Chances are it's growing in your nearby shopping mall, or you can spot it in a building's atrium. It's Spathiphyllum, or the peace lily. It's a very, very shade tolerant plant so it's often used in interiorscaping.
But they rarely look this good in a mall. The leaves here are large and lusciously jade green. The flowers, which are a spathe-and-spadix structure. The white part is the spathe, which is a bract, or modified leaf. The yellow spike in the center is the spadix, which is an inflorescence, consisting of many small flowers. The plant is called peace lily, evidently due to the white color of the spadix.
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