This is one of the most misunderstood flower. It has often been mistaken for a fake and a popular fake it is. The petal (spathe) is thick and waxy making it a popular cut flower. It is also very often maligned as those with imaginative or 'wayward' minds refer to its vague semblance of a part of the human anatomy.
This vermillion variety is large, loud and a real attention grabber.
A less fiery shade of red but just as lovely is presented here.
The dwarf variety is mass planted for visual impact.
Nodding heads of the dwarf variety make a good landscape design statment.
The dwarf variety is mass planted for visual impact.
Being low and compact they make ideal bedding plants.
This is an anthurium with a slightly different form and hue. The variations extend to the spadix where in this instance is mostly white with a slight pink flush on its tip. The tiny flowers are carried on the spadix.
This is a large variety with pure white spathe and spadix, the tip of which is dipped in sunshine; Anthurium carnival.
This anthurium of white spathe with pink spadix provides another permutation of variety.
A teeny weeny damsel fly seen clutching the edge of this anthurium.
This one started off as a white spathe but gradually acquired a greenish tinge as it matured. It provided a broad platform for this gastropod to glide happily on until it ...
This one started off as a white spathe but gradually acquired a greenish tinge as it matured. It provided a broad platform for this gastropod to glide happily on until it ...
reached the tip and then - oops! The equilibrium was lost and it was left swinging and suspended for a while. It was probably having great fun.
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” - Lewis Carroll
A single stalk of anthurium provide contrast to a single frond of Norfolk Island Pine. These two cuttings last like eternity in my columnar vase of water.
Posted from Cork, Ireland (This is my last week of my one-month sojourn in Ireland).
