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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Partial Shade - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Plant Type
Herb/Forb, Herbaceous Perennial, Houseplant, Poisonous
Lifespan
Perennial
Flower
The flowers are small, in a slender (white, green, or yellow) spadix with a spathe below which may be shiny red, white, or other colors. Spathes are heart-shaped and waxy. A spadix, erect, cylindric, often tapering, sometimes twisted; spathe persistent, in right angle to spadix, usually flat, sometimes hooded, spreading or reflexed, margins not overlapping at base, colorful, usually pink to red; scape long, taller than foliage.
Fruit
A globose berry.
Taxonomy
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium