The anthurium is a popular and easy-care houseplant. With good care, it blooms tirelessly all year round and is particularly impressive with its strong colors. Read about the interesting flower colors in which this exotic plant is now available.
What colors are the anthurium?
Anthuriums bloom in many colors, from bright red to white, cream, pink, yellow, orange, hot pink, purple and chocolate brown. Popular varieties with beautiful colors include 'Acropolis', 'Baron', 'Black Karma', 'Cheers', 'Denali', 'Facetto', 'Fantasia', 'Kaseko', 'Lilli', 'Livium', 'Marea', 'Midori', 'Otazu', 'Peruzzi', 'Pistace', 'Rosee Choco' and 'Zizou'.
What colors does the anthurium originally have?
Anthuriums or flamingo flowers, as the houseplants are colloquially called, can be found in numerous German living rooms and bedrooms. Particularly popular are the large flamingo flower (Anthurium andraeanum) and the small flamingo flower (Anthurium scherzerianum), both of which have bright red bracts like the South American wild forms.
The actual flower consists of a light, short bulb that protrudes from the center of the bract called the spathe. The bract, even though it is as colorful as a flower, is actually just an unusually colored leaf and serves to visually attract pollinating insects. The remaining leaves are an intense, dark green, shiny color.
In what colors can the anthurium still bloom?
For some time now, anthuriums have also been available with white, cream or pink bracts. Varieties with a gradient look particularly striking, such as red-green, white-pink or white-green spathe. In terms of breeding, varieties with chocolate brown, violet, orange, pink or yellow colors have now been created, which bring colorful variety to the windowsill.
Which varieties have particularly beautiful colors?
These popular varieties of anthurium ensure an attractive variety of colors:
- 'Acropolis': large, creamy white bracts
- ‘Baron’: large, pink bracts
- ‘Black Karma’: large, chocolate brown to almost black bracts
- ‘Cheers’: large, bright pink bracts
- 'Denali': large, strong dark green-white bracts with a color gradient
- ‘Facetto’: large, white-red bracts with a color gradient
- ‘Fantasia’: large, cream-colored bracts
- ‘Kaseko’: two-tone yellow-green with pink tapered tip
- 'Lilli': many small, dark pink bracts
- 'Livium': many small, red-white bracts with a gradient and strong veining
- 'Marea': large, red-green bracts with a color gradient
- 'Midori': large, greenish bracts
- ‘Otazu’: small, red-brown bracts
- 'Peruzzi': large, red-green bracts with a color gradient
- 'Pistace': large, light green bracts
- ‘Rosee Choco’: large, burgundy bracts
- 'Zizou': many small, dark purple bracts
Which species or varieties are also visually rather unusual?
In addition to the colorfully flowering anthurium varieties, there are also species with strikingly colored foliage. These include:
- Anthurium crystallinum: large heart-shaped, dark green leaves with white veins
- Anthurium warocqueanum: large green leaves with white veining
- Anthurium veitchii: very large, elongated and monochromatic dark green leaves with notched patterns
- Anthurium clarinervium: heart-shaped, dark green leaves with a white leaf pattern
- Anthurium polyschistum: palmately divided, unicolored dark green leaves
- Anthurium luxurians: very large leaves with heavily indented patterns
The rather inconspicuous flowers are characteristic of these leaf-patterned species.
Tip
Pay attention to high humidity
Basically all anthurium species are very easy to care for, but as typical rainforest plants they need a warm environment with high humidity. If the edges and tips of the leaves turn brown, the air is too dry. Showering the plants regularly helps keep them he althy.
