Anthurium Red plant

Anthurium 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, andraeanum, and laceleaf.

Anthuriums are one of the most popular tropical flowers with a long vase life of about six weeks and even more depending on the variety and season. The heart-shaped flower of Anthuriums is really a spathe or a waxy, modified leaf flaring out from the base of a fleshy spike (spadix) where the tiny real flowers grow. The anthurium flowers appear as a roughness on the spadix as compared to a smooth spadix.

They have leafy bracts which may be white, yellow, red, pink, orange, or green. Being popular foliage plants, Anthuriums are grown for their attractive flowering bracts which are popular with the cut flower trade.