Anthurium scandens (Aubl.) Engl.

sect. Tetraspermium
Common Name: Pearl Anthurium
Family: Araceae Juss.

Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America

Description: This is the most widespread aroid in the New World and, doubtless, the most ecologically diverse as well, occurring in tropical moist, premontane wet, tropical wet, premontane rain, and lower montane rain forest life zones. This is a creeping epiphytic aroid with a aerial roots along the stem. Produces small clumps of pale lavender to almost while berries.⁴

USDA Zone: 10b-11

Accession Data:

Accession # 199100054
Source: Unknown
Accession Date: 01-01-1991
Bench: 4112 - EPI: North Wall
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 10-02-2024

Classification:

Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
SubClass: monocots
Order: Alismatales
SubOrder:
Family: Araceae
SubFamily: Pothoideae
Tribe: Anthurieae
SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:

Year	Jan				Feb				Mar					Apr				May				Jun					Jul				Aug				Sep					Oct				Nov				Dec
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009

References (internal):

EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany

EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / Belize / Costa Rica / Central American Pacific Is. / El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Cuba / Haiti / Jamaica / Leeward Is. / Puerto Rico / Trinidad-Tobago / Venezuelan Antilles / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil Northeast / Brazil Southeast / Brazil South

References (external):

Anthurium scandens at International Aroid Society. Accessed 8 June 2015.
The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 18 May 2015.
WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 18 May 2015
Anthurium scandens at Top Tropicals. Accessed 18 May 2015.

data regenerated on Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:09:18 -0500 [bcm v4.0]