Anthurium including plants from the Araceae family. This beautiful leaved plants still allied with a number of popular ornamental plants such aglaonema, philodendron, ornamental taro, and alokasia. In the family Araceae, Anthurium is a genus with the largest number of species. It is estimated there are about 1000 species of genus Anthurium.
These plants include evergreen plants or do not know the period of dormancy. The wild, these plants usually live in epiphyte with a stick in the trunk. Can also live in terrestrial forest floor.
These plants include evergreen plants or do not know the period of dormancy. The wild, these plants usually live in epiphyte with a stick in the trunk. Can also live in terrestrial forest floor.
The main attraction of anthurium is a beautiful leaf shape, unique, and varied. The leaves are generally dark green leaves with veins and bones large and prominent. So that makes the figure of this plant looks sturdy but still radiates elegance when adult. Not surprisingly, these plants have a luxurious and exclusive. In the past, anthurium many ornate gardens and the palace became the kingdoms in Java. That said, revered as the king of crops.
In general, the anthurium is divided into two kinds of leaves and the kind anthurium anthurium flowers. Anthurium leaf has allure, especially from other forms of daunya special. While the flower anthurium further highlight both the diversity of interest and of species hybrids. Usually the type of anthurium flowers used for cut flowers.
Anthurium grows in many forms, mostly evergreen, bushy or climbing epiphytes with roots that can hang from the canopy all the way to the floor of the rain forest. There are also many terrestrial forms which are found as understory plants, as well as hemiepiphytic forms. A hemiepiphyte is a plant capable of beginning life as a seed and sending roots to the soil, or beginning as a terrestrial plant that climbs a tree and then sends roots back to the soil. They occur also as lithophytes. Some are only found in association with arboreal ant colonies or growing on rocks in midstream (such as Anthurium amnicola).
The stems are short to elongate with a length between 15 and 30 cm. The simple leaves come in many shapes; most leaves are to be found at the end of the stems, although terrestrial plants show less of this pachycaul tendency. Leaves may be spatulate, rounded, or obtuse at the apex. They may be borne erect or spreading in a rosette, with a length that may surpass 100 cm in some of the larger species (such as Anthurium angamarcanum). The upper surface of the leaf may be matte, semiglossy, or fully glossy, and the leaf texture may range from leathery to fragile and papery. The leaves are petiolate and possess a structure called the geniculum, which is unique to the genus Anthurium. The geniculum allows the plant to swivel its leaves towards the sun, much in the same manner as sunflowers. In drier environments, the leaves can form a bird's-nest shaped rosette that enables the plant to collect falling debris, and thus water and natural fertilizer. Terrestrial growers or epiphytes often have cordate leaves; others grow as vines with rosettes of lanceolate leaves, and still others have many-lobed leaves.
The stems are short to elongate with a length between 15 and 30 cm. The simple leaves come in many shapes; most leaves are to be found at the end of the stems, although terrestrial plants show less of this pachycaul tendency. Leaves may be spatulate, rounded, or obtuse at the apex. They may be borne erect or spreading in a rosette, with a length that may surpass 100 cm in some of the larger species (such as Anthurium angamarcanum). The upper surface of the leaf may be matte, semiglossy, or fully glossy, and the leaf texture may range from leathery to fragile and papery. The leaves are petiolate and possess a structure called the geniculum, which is unique to the genus Anthurium. The geniculum allows the plant to swivel its leaves towards the sun, much in the same manner as sunflowers. In drier environments, the leaves can form a bird's-nest shaped rosette that enables the plant to collect falling debris, and thus water and natural fertilizer. Terrestrial growers or epiphytes often have cordate leaves; others grow as vines with rosettes of lanceolate leaves, and still others have many-lobed leaves.