Small flamingo flower

Small flamingo flower
	The small flamingo flower as a houseplant
Systematics
Order :	Frog-spoon-like (Alismatales)
Family :	Arum family (Araceae)
Subfamily :	Pothoideae
Genre :	Flamingo flowers ( Anthurium )
Section :	Porphyrochitonium
Type :	Small flamingo flower
Scientific name
	Anthurium scherzerianum
	Bulkhead

The small flamingo flower in the greenhouse

The Small Flamingo Flower ( Anthurium scherzerianum ) is a plant of the genus Flamingo Flower in the family of Araceae (Araceae). She comes from tropical America .

description

Anthurium scherzerianum is an evergreen, perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 30 to 50 cm. It grows epiphytically or terrestrially. There are numerous, thick roots. The basal, 15 to 30 cm long leaves are clearly divided into a petiole and a leaf blade. The petiole is 4 to 20 cm long. The simple, dark green, lanceolate leaf blade has a smooth leaf edge, is 5 to 26 cm long and 1.5 to 6.5 cm wide.

The inflorescence is structured like most Araceae: in this species there is a bright red spathe (single bract) that is 4 to 12 cm long and 2.4 to 6 cm wide and an orange-red, twisted flower bulb ( spadix ), the 14 to 52 cm long and about 2 mm in diameter. The pollen is white.

Orange to red berries are produced.

This information applies to the wild form, cultivars can differ more or less strongly.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 30, less often 14.

ingredients

Like other arum plants, flamingo flowers contain the toxins aroin (from the group of saponins ) and calcium oxalate .

use

Cultivars of this type are common as houseplant . There are also cultivated forms with spathe of a different color (for example white).

distribution

The home of Anthurium scherzerianum located in Costa Rica (and the first copy was in Guatemala found).

Systematics

The first description by the Austrian botanist Heinrich Wilhelm Schott was published in 1857 in Oesterreichisches botanisches Wochenblatt , 7, p. 53.

Varieties (selection)

'Amaretti'
'Ariane'
'Arinos'
'Aristo'
'Artica'
'Arthur'
'Festino'
'Graffity'

literature

Thomas B. Croat: Description on the Araceae website. (engl.)

Web links

Commons : Small Flamingo Flower ( Anthurium scherzerianum ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Tropicos. [1]
↑ http://www.gift Pflanzen.com/anthurium_scherzerianum.html
↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Anthurium - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on June 17, 2018.
^ Anthurium scherzerianum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

[Tropicos-1] Tropicos. [1]

[2] ttp://www.gift Pflanzen.com/anthurium_scherzerianum.html

[WCSP-3] Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Anthurium - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on June 17, 2018.

[4] Anthurium scherzerianum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.