4Aroids Encyclopedia - Anthuriums

Anthurium Stripey (Black Widow)

Once again we are confronted with a plant whose origin is known, but whose details, as is often the case in the anthurium hobby, are presented in a mysterious and unclear manner. We are talking abo...

Anthurium Basilisk

The Anthurium 'Basilisk' originally comes from an anthurium collector from Indonesia. Erik von Kartel Daun bought a clone from him and obliged the original owner not to sell any more clones of the ...

Anthurium rotolanteum Croat sp nov. ined.

Anthurium rotolanteum, also known as Anthurium rotolantei, is a plant whose origin is not exactly known, which is currently placed in the section cardiolonchium. It is believed to be a species. A...

Anthurium Midnight Velvet

Originally from the depths of the inventory of a palm collector friend in Australia, Curt Butterfield was the first to receive the plant as a gift, which we now know as Anthurium 'Midnight Velvet'...

Cerrocampanense

Anthurium cerrocampanense is an unusual member of the section Cardiolonchium. It grows terrestrially in clay-rich soil, rarely epiphytically and is endemic to Panama, predominantly west of the Pan...

Anthurium Forgetii NE Br.

Anthurium forgetii is a plant first described by NE Brown in 1906 in the "Gardeners Chronicle", a weekly botanical journal from London. According to the description, the name goes back to the fir...

Portillae (including Indo Portillae and sp. Nov DF)

In addition to the Anthurium sp. Nov. 'df', which was taken from the northern forests of Ecuador by Dewey Fisk in the 1990s, he probably also brought a second plant with him to his nursery in the ...

Anthurium Wonderboy (Red Crystallinum)

The original Anthurium 'Wonderboy' breeding line descended from the nursery and collection of the late Tim Anderson of Palm Hammock Estate. He crossed Anthurium crystallinum, Anthurium m...

Anthurium Red Crystallinum Zara

First of all: Anthurium 'Red Crystallinum' is not a species, but a complex hybrid or cultivar and is now officially accepted and registered as such. The official story of how the 'Zara' came into ...