Anthurium, whose species quickly gained popularity and became one of the most popular in home floriculture, has remained a trend for many years. This exotic is grown not only by amateur gardeners, but also by professional interior designers who use its effect in their projects. It is difficult to find an interior that this original plant would not fit into. Most often, at the word anthurium, a beautiful flower appears with glossy leaves and an ear-flower surrounded by a bright red perianth. But this is far from the only variety of plants.
Anthurium - what is this flower
This flower appeared on the windowsills of Russian florists relatively recently, but won wildly popular. They love him, because this is one of the most unpretentious exotics, and also largely due to the signs and superstitions associated with him. After all, it’s not so easy to call him “Men's happiness”.
Anthurium species
Appearance story
In 1876, the French botanist Eduard Andre discovered a group of plants called Anthurium while traveling. The scientist obtained several copies, made a detailed description of them and transported them to Europe.
It turned out that these are the most numerous representatives of the Aroid family, in nature there are more than 900 varieties of anthuriums.
For reference! The translation of the name of the plant from Latin consists of two words “flower” and “tail”, which is logical, fully reflecting the appearance of a resident of the tropics.
Botanical Description
Description of this group of plants:
- this genus is part of the Aroid family, it includes only herbaceous evergreens;
- most species in nature are epiphytes or semi-epiphytes, growing in close contact with large trees, but creeping varieties and creepers also exist;
- leaves are large, leathery, saturated green, with a glossy surface;
- leaf shape options: whole, incised, deeply dissected;
- leaf color is diverse, some may even be painted ornamental;
- flowers of amazing beauty, but it is not the flower itself that attracts it, but its bract. The flowers are small, yellow, collected in cobs, which can be either straight or curved. Around each ears there is a large bract, a “veil” of various shapes and colors;
- fruit - a berry with juicy pulp.
Anthurium in nature
Useful and dangerous properties of the plant
Beneficial features:
- kills germs in the room in which it is located. Their number there is reduced by 70%;
- 8% reduces the amount of formaldehyde;
- It is a living filter from ammonia and toluene.
Hazardous properties:
- all parts of the plant are poisonous, you can’t eat anything, you can get serious food poisoning. This rule mainly applies to homes with small children and pets. It is worth keeping a flower away from them;
- pruning and transplanting male happiness should be done with gloves, since the juice can cause burns on the skin and in case of accidental contact with the mucous membranes;
- allergies are possible, so allergy sufferers should be careful.
Important! Despite the fact that the plant contains poisonous substances, it does not emit them outward, on the contrary, it helps to clean the air. Therefore, if you do not try to eat a flower, it will only bring benefits.
What is the difference between anthurium and spathiphyllum
These plants have not so much in common: belonging to one family and a similar flower structure. People’s signs are tightly connected with each other, since spathiphyllum - “female happiness” must certainly come complete with “male happiness”. But there are still more differences than the general ones:
- leaf shape;
- color of the bedspread;
- bedspread size;
- Anthurium is more decorative, but also more capricious in comparison with spathiphyllum.
There is also a difference in the features of flower care, but some manage to successfully grow them in one pot.
Feminine and masculine happiness together
What flowers are Anthuriums
Despite the prevailing opinion that these flowers are exclusively red, a huge number of their color varieties are represented.
Whites
A feature of the white variety is the ability to stay fresh for 14 days after cutting, they look great in bouquets.
The rest of the description is identical to most other indoor species: the leaves are glossy, large, the inflorescence is an ear, the only difference is a bract of white color.
Pastel colors - pink and peach
Pink and peach shades of the flower bedspreads are very highly appreciated by flower growers and occupy a worthy place in their collections. Some of them, for example, Tennessee, are distinguished by the fact that as they grow older, the color of both the cobs and the covers changes.
On the newly opened flowers, the veil is soft pink, and the ear is white, when the flower begins to fade, all its parts become light green, merging with glossy leaves.
Variety Tennessee
Reds
Red Anthuriums are champions among indoor flowers. This is the most popular and most beloved color, it is he who symbolizes that same male happiness. It is it that needs to be purchased so that all signs come true.
It is worth noting that it looks quite impressive. With proper care, it can bloom almost year-round.
For reference! The group includes many varieties, it can safely be called the largest.
Violet and Lilac
Anthurium violet (lilac) is quite rare in Russia. This is an unusual color of the flower, which is also called tulip. This name is associated with the similarity of color and the small size of the cob. Beautiful, very delicate variety.
Interesting! One flowering lasts up to 3 months.
Anthurium Lilac
Ultramarine
The name of the group speaks for itself. These hybrid varieties are characterized by a rather large cob and bedspread. All bright ultramarine color. In nature, such a coloring does not exist.
Blue and blue
Blue and blue anthuriums also cannot exist in nature, since the plant itself does not have such a gene. But unscrupulous sellers often wishful thinking. Often these are just white varieties that were watered with the addition of special dyes, that is, they are simply colored.
It is about the same as blue roses. You can buy such flowers solely to impress, but they will not occupy a worthy place in the collection. Real blue varieties cannot be purchased in the mass market, these are too rare varieties that were born recently.
Advice! Determining whether a dye is used to give a new, unnatural color is easy. To do this, look at the leaves. Artificial dye is able to color everything except the green part of the flower, if the veins are bluish - a fake flower, which they try to sell more expensive.
Blue anthurium
Yellow and orange
Anthuriums orange and yellow look original, varieties of such colors stand out against the general background with the color of their bedspreads. Orange is less bright than red. Yellow anthuriums have yellow and the cob, and bract. An example is Anthurium Orange.
Green
Angry colors of anthuriums are used by florists with pleasure. Against the background of large green flowers with a yellow ears, the rest of the plants look even more impressive.
Green Anthurium in a bouquet
Dark - black, chocolate, brown
All varieties belonging to this group are artificially created hybrids that are very popular. The bedspread is dark, the shade depends on the variety. The ear is yellow, possibly with a dark tip (for example, the Black Prince).
Decorative flowering species of anthurium, their varieties and hybrids
Most varieties of Anthurium are grown precisely for the purpose of obtaining beautiful, large, bright flowers.
Anthurium Andre (andrianum)
Anthurium Andre (also known as Andrianum) is one of the most popular varieties that laid the foundation for many hybrid varieties. Description:
- a short-stemmed plant with a well-developed root system;
- the leaves are glossy, heart-shaped, saturated green;
- leaf length 30-40 cm, width up to 20 cm;
- inflorescences yellowish, pink or white 10-15 cm long;
- perianth wide, heart-shaped, leathery, sometimes pimply.
The color of the bedspreads can be different: white, salmon, bright red.
Anthurium Scherzer
Scherzer's variety is a very popular dwarf species of anthurium, whose height does not exceed 40 cm. They can be both terrestrial plants and epiphytes.
Distinctive feature: short stems, which are often underground. Leaves are lanceolate or ellipsoid with a leathery texture and a matte surface.
Leaf plates are located on short cuttings, speckled on both sides. Peduncle 15-50 cm, the veil is bright red, sometimes with orange hues. Decorativeity is also added by the cob up to 10 cm long, not straight, but curved. Its color matches the color of the bedspread.
Interesting! During flowering, this variety produces a pleasant smell, which is not typical for other varieties of male happiness, which do not exude aroma at all.
Anthurium mix
A mix is a mixture of varieties of one of the species or several types of plants at once. Caring for the mix is pretty simple. The main thing is moderation in everything, then it will be possible to please all the plants at the same time.
Amalia Elegans
Anthurium Amalia Elegans is one of the most elegant representatives of male happiness. He appeared in Europe one of the first, was among those copies that Edward Andre brought from Africa.
Description of the variety Amalia elegance:
- the height of an adult plant can reach 60 cm;
- the cob is large, may be saturated pink, lilac or purple;
- the cover is white-pink in color with light green spots with a dark pink fringing, the transition from one shade to another is smooth, gradient.
Interesting! With proper care, an adult plant can simultaneously produce up to 6 peduncles.
Amalia elegance
Amalia Purple
Description of the variety of anthurium Amalia Purple:
- plant height up to 30 cm;
- leaves are heart-shaped, dark-angled, leathery, glossy;
- the size of the sheet plate is 10-15 cm;
- flower with a diameter of up to 7 cm, heart-shaped;
- the color of the bedspread and cob is purple, the bedspread with pearl tints.
Anthurium Amalia Purple
Picasso
Anthurium Picasso is characterized by a rather small bract. Color fades from a lighter base to a brighter finish. Most often there are orange or yellow shades, but it lends itself well to coloring, so you can even find blue or blue varieties.
Eleanor
Anthurium Eleanor is characterized by a standard red bedspread and yellow inflorescence. Sometimes a green border runs along the edges of the bract.
Otazu Brown
This is a young hybrid obtained by artificial crossbreeding. The height of an adult plant is up to 70 cm. The leaves are large, dark green, heart-shaped. The cover is of a very interesting color: maroon, almost brown. It is thanks to this color that the variety stands out among others.
Dakota
Dakota is a medium-sized shrub. The leaves are large, divided. The inflorescence is large, divided at the base.
Interesting! With good lighting, the color of the bedspread is uniformly red, but with a lack of light, it begins to turn green.
Turenza
Turenza belongs to the group with red bedspreads. The color is more saturated, this anthurium is almost burgundy.
Pink champion
Pink Champion attracts with its pale pink color bedspreads. Flowers are medium in size up to 10 cm, the ear is yellowish pink, but changes to green with age. This is anthurium with pink variability.
Baby boomer
A rather tall plant, up to 1 m in height. It differs from other red varieties in that as the flower withers, the veil changes color to green.
Leganza
Description:
- leaf plates oval, slightly pointed;
- flowers are bright orange;
- bract coral or pink with a green border on the sides.
Medium size - up to half a meter in height.
Fiorino
Description of Anthurium Fiorino:
- refers to the tulip group;
- bract color purple;
- like other purple and lilac varieties - the size is small;
- the size of the bedspread is 8-10 cm, an ear of interesting dark purple.
Interesting! Flowering can last up to 6 months.
Fantasy love
Fantasy Love is a hybrid variety whose height reaches about 70 cm. The bract is colorful, saturated, combines white and pink tones. During the flowering period, their saturation and location changes, and a light green shade is added to the end of the period.
Pandora
Pandora is also a hybrid variety. Its color changes completely from the beginning of flowering to its end. Initially, the bract and inflorescence are completely pale pink, as they grow older, both are painted in light green tones, the flower decreases in size and becomes closer to green.
Sierra Magic
Description:
- medium-sized shrub, with large, up to 30 cm, leaf blades;
- the top of the leaf is dark green, the bottom side is light green;
- red flower is very wrinkled, not very large, up to 12 cm.
These are the main decorative-flowering varieties of male happiness.
Decorative-leafy varieties of anthuriums and their varieties
Not everyone knows, but male happiness is cultivated not only for the sake of beautiful flowers. There are species and varieties that do not bloom at all, but have amazingly beautiful leaves.
Anthurium Baker
Description:
- epiphyte;
- the sheet plate has the shape of an ellipse, its length can be from 20 cm to half a meter;
- leaf color is heterogeneous: the top is dark green matte, closer to the base, the greens become more dull and reddish villi appear on the matte surface;
- inflorescence - an ear of light cream color.
After flowering, fruits appear on the plant - bright red berries.
Anthurium Hooker
This flower is appreciated mostly by collectors. And the reason for its popularity among them is beautiful, luxurious greenery.
Flowering at home is extremely rare. This type of male happiness has virtually no stem, therefore it seems that the leaves form a basal rosette. The length of each sheet is up to 1 m, width up to 40 cm.
The color is light green, small dark spots are possible.
Hooker's male happiness
Crystal
Description:
- height up to 40 cm;
- the length of the sheet plate is 20-40 cm;
- leaf color changes over the course of life from bronze-reddish to dark green.
Flowering occurs rarely, cob inconspicuous.
Majestic
A very large plant, which in nature reaches enormous size. At home, it is valued for the beauty of its leaves, located on long cuttings. Their color is dark green with pronounced light veins.
Dissected
It differs from the others in large green leaves with a dissected shape, wavy at the edges. The inflorescence is greenish, the bedspread is transparent.
Climbing
Named so because of its life form. This is a liana that can climb any support, including the window. Its length reaches 1 m.The leaves are oval or lanceolate, leathery, bright green, with black dots on the back.
Sparkling vein
Decorative foliage epiphyte with large matte dark green leaves, up to 40 cm in length. Against a pleasant green background, all veins are clearly visible, highlighted with a light, as if pearl color.
Features of caring for anthurium at home
The main rules to follow:
- The correct selection of the pot - it should be a little cramped, otherwise the ground part will not develop until the roots are completely covered with an earthen lump.
- Soil can be bought at a flower shop. There are mixtures created specifically for him.
- Temperature in summer is +20 ... +28 ° С, in winter +15 ... +20 ° С.
- Constant maintenance of high humidity.
- Regular watering, spraying, wiping the leaves with a soft cloth, a sprinkling procedure is possible.
Interesting! Like any resident of the tropics, this exot prefers bright but soft light. It will not grow and develop in the shade, but it should also be protected from direct sunlight, the foliage is sensitive to burns.
Anthurium in the interior of the room
This exotic is actively used by interior designers to complement their designs. The plant fits perfectly into any room, from the classic style to offices and large business centers. A variety of varieties expands the horizons.
Signs associated with the flower "male happiness"
It is believed that the flower of male happiness stabilizes the financial condition of the family, along with its growth and development, the family budget also increases.
Blooming exotics will also bring money into the house, the larger the inflorescence and the longer the flowering, the more money you can expect. For both women and men, this plant brings exclusively positive changes. Women will find beautiful, happy love, and for men in this regard, everything will work out.
It is believed that anthurium, growing in the bedroom near the matrimonial bed, can even increase potency.
The most common among exotics, and among other domestic flowers, anthurium is beautiful, regardless of species. It is nice that the beginner will be able to cope with the cultivation of the flower. Anthurium is especially liked by those gardeners who believe in signs: both beauty and happiness in the house at the same time.
