Laceleaf
Anthurium
Laceleaf,Anthurium,Flamingo Flower,Flamingo Lily,Tailflower
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Description
Anthurium (/ænˈθjuːriəm/; Schott, 1829), is a genus of about 1000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, and laceleaf.
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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.
How to Grow
Sunlight
Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day), Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours)