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'''''Anthurium hookeri''''', the '''Bird's Nest Anthurium''', is a species of flowering plant in the ''[[Anthurium]]'' genus. The specimens sold are almost always hybrids and not the species. ''Anthurium hookeri'' possesses some unique features which include, short internodes, dense roots, and lanceolate cataphylls. The leaves are rosulate with D-shaped petioles and are 2–9 cm wide and 10–26 cm long. The leaves also exhibit a scalariforme venation and supervolute vernation. Covering the leaves are tiny black glandular punctuates. The berries produced by the plant are white.
'''''Anthurium hookeri''''', the '''Bird's Nest Anthurium''', is a species of flowering plant in the ''[[Anthurium]]'' genus. The specimens sold are almost always hybrids and not the species. ''Anthurium hookeri'' possesses some unique features which include, short internodes, dense roots, and lanceolate cataphylls. The leaves have triangular to D-shaped petioles 2–9 cm long, are rosulate, 10–26 cm wide, 35-89 cm long. The leaves exhibit a scalariforme venation and supervolute vernation. Covering the leaves are tiny black glandular punctuates. The berries produced by the plant are white.
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Bird's Nest Anthurium
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A. hookeri
Binomial name
Anthurium hookeri

Anthurium hookeri, the Bird's Nest Anthurium, is a species of flowering plant in the Anthurium genus. The specimens sold are almost always hybrids and not the species. Anthurium hookeri possesses some unique features which include, short internodes, dense roots, and lanceolate cataphylls. The leaves have triangular to D-shaped petioles 2–9 cm long, are rosulate, 10–26 cm wide, 35-89 cm long. The leaves exhibit a scalariforme venation and supervolute vernation. Covering the leaves are tiny black glandular punctuates. The berries produced by the plant are white.

External links

  • Exoticrainforest.com Anthurium hookeri-[1]