Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Is it Anthurium Bonplandii or Jenmanii?

Dear Komang:
Your plant is what I treated as Anthurium bonplandii Bunting var. guayanum (Bunting) Croat. Some still call this Anthurium guayanum but I chose to consider it a variety of A. bonplandii owing to the immense variation in both species. Anthurium jenmanii Engl. is very different, having a spathe that soon falls off and also by lacking the dark punctuation on the lower blade surface.


Good growing! You have a lovely plant!

Tom Croat

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