Flamingo Flowers or Anthurium
We are back to give you some flower update! We have here a pink Anthurium also known as Flamingo flowers or Bloy Flower. We took this photo during our visit to the garden center last week. Anthurium belongs to Arum family or Araceae. Most Anthurium flowers can be grown indoor and outdoor in mild climates with shady spots. These are another beautiful kind of flowers!
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Tribe: Anthurieae
Genus: Anthurium
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Anthuriums like moist air, misty mild weather. They dislike full sun all day. Arums grow nicely next to a drain or a water tap which drips a bit. They dislike wind. I knew people in subtropical Durban who grew them for sale in well drained acid soil. They had them in about 50 cm high bricked up boxes under shade cloth. Some sun got to them of course. The taller the flower stems, the more expensive, they were. Anthuriums last a long time inside in a vase and are therefore worth their price. Yellow anthuriums are more rare, by the way.