Anthurium

Botanical Name:

Anthurium

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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