anthurium
ok, the next part is going to be the pot.and, i am going to paint a more of an ornamental rounded pot than the pot in that photograph.so, i need to do yellow ocher. but, before i do that, i am going to need to get the cleanwater and do a wet and wet for the whole operation. laying down water. and then, with the yellowocher. we are going to start in the darkest areas. when you first put your brush down,it is going to have more paint on it. so, that is when you hit the darkest areas andthen you work towards the lightest areas. to get to the point where you need to get,take water out of the brush. stick your brush in about an eighth of an inch. wipe it out.and then, continue to do that. just take more color out and this side is going to be shinier.and now, while it is wet and wet i am going
to start working in more color. first off,i am going to work in burnt sienna, i mean, burnt umber. that gives it sort of an agedlook.
Anthurium Tempra
Tempra® is a new variety developed by the breeding department of Florist Anthurium. It has been introduced at Hortifair 2006 under the name Moreno, which has later been changed into Tempra (for breeders'right purposes). As a terra/brown anthurium this is a new colour in our Anthurium range.An exclusive cutflower variety which stands out in the total anthurium assortment. Tempra® is an extension of our Anthurium cut flower assortment and is limited avaiable now.
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Anthurium Bakeri
Family: AraceaeAnthurium
Origin: Guatemala to Columbia
Epiphyte, stems less than 10cm long, 1.5cm diam.; roots moderately slender; leaf are 1.7cm wide; cataphylls coriaceous, 3-6cm long, acuminate at apex, drying brown, persisting as fibers. Leaves erect to spreading; petioles 11-17 cm long, to 5mm diam., subterete to sharply sulcate; blades narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 19-55cm long, 8-9 cm wide, broadest at middle, acuminate at apex, narrowly rounded at base; upper surface matte, lower surface paler and matte with reddish-brown glandular punctations; midrib convexly raised below.
Erect inflorescence of pale yellow-green spathe with red tinged margins on some clones. Spadix colour is white. Berries are red with pointed apex.
This species is one of the most popular.The species is known from Guatemala to Colombia in wetter parts of tropical moist, premontane wet, and tropical wet forest at elevations from sea level to 660 m. In Panama, the species ranges to 1,000 m elevation.
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Anthurium gracile
Family: AraceaeRed Pearls Anthurium
Origin: Colombia
An attractive species with slender leaves and a graceful semi-pendant spike of vivid red berries. Slender, deep green leather leaves form a loose upright rosette about 18in tall. An interesting species that in nature has a close relationship with ants. According to Benzing, the seeds resemble the pupae of ants, and are collected by arboreal ant species and placed in the nest where they germinate. Self pollinating, and fruits regularly. Beautiful strings of red seeds hang from the plant most of the year. Grows in shade.
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Anthurium acutangulum
Epiphyte or rarely terrestrial; roots numerous; cataphylls subcoriaceous, 2.5-5(11) cm long, acuminate (the acumen apiculate), drying tan to light brown, persisting as linear fibers. LEAVES erect to spreading; petioles narrowly sulcate, rounded to sometimes 1 -ribbed abaxially, 3-22 cm long, 4-7 mm diam.; geniculum 1-1.5 cm long; blades elliptic to narrowly obovate, subcoriaceous, short-acuminate at apex, acute to obtuse at base, 15-34 cm long, 5-14 cm wide, broadest at middle or slightly above, both surfaces semiglossy, the lower surface punctate; midrib convexly raised above and below; primary lateral veins 8-10 per side, departing midrib at 55°-60° angle, ± straight to collective vein, loop-connected from base; collective vein rising from base, sunken on upper surface, 3-8 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE spreading to pendent, equal to or longer than leaves; peduncle 12-61 cm long, 4-4.5 mm diam., terete or strongly ribbed abaxially, sometimes 3-ribbed adaxially, rarely 4-6 ribbed, the ribs irregularly spaced, tinged with red-violet near base, much longer than petioles; spathe green, tinged with red-violet (B & K Yellow-green 8/10), oblanceo-latc, 7-11.5 cm long, 1.2-1.5 cm wide, broadest at base, inserted at 40° angle on peduncle, sometimes slightly twisted; stipe 6-7 mm long in front, 2-3 mm long in back; spadix yellow-green (B & K Yellow-green 6/7.5), 8.5-21 cm long, 4-6 mm diam. at base, 3-4 mm diam. at apex; flowers rhombic, 4.2-6 mm long, 2.5-3.5 mm wide, the sides ± straight; ca. 5 flowers visible in the principal spiral and ca. 4-6 flowers visible in the alternate spiral; tepals glossy, weakly punctate, papillate; lateral tepals 3-3.3 mm wide, the inner margins straight and flat; pistils emergent, green; stigma brushlike with droplets, dry and brown as stamens emerge; stamens emerging rapidly from base or middle, the first lateral stamens emerging at apex as third and fourth emerge at base, exserted on transparent filaments, 0.3-0.5 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, retracting and holding anthers at sides of pistil, not contiguous; anthers creamy white, 0.5 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm wide; thecae ellipsoid, divaricate; pollen white, abundant. INFRUCTESCENCE pendent; berries pale orange, ± obovoid, ca. 5 mm long. Figs. 2 and 3. The species is known from Honduras (La Mosquitia) to Panama from sea level to 1,400 m. It is found only on the Atlantic slope in Honduras and Nicaragua, but on both slopes in Costa Rica and Panama. In Panama it occurs on the Pacific slope near the Continental Divide. Anthurium acutangulum is known from welter parts of tropical moist, premontane wet, and tropical wet forest. Anthurium acutangulum is recognized by its long-petiolate, more or less elliptic, glandular-punctate leaves, which are abruptly acuminate at apex; its slender, pendulous inflorescence; its peduncle and spathe that are usually tinged red-violet, and its pale orange berries. This species is a typical member of section Porphyrochitonium despite its erroneous placement in section Leptanthurium by Engler (1905). The species is most easily confused with smaller specimens of A. ramonense but that species has a much stouter peduncle and the inflorescence is either held semierect or, if it is pendent, it is held stiffly downward and outward, not hanging loosely as in the case of A. acutangulum. In addition, the pistils of A. ramonense are not at all raised, the exposed portion being markedly squared and violet-purple. In A. acutangulum the pistils are green, appear somewhat rounded, and are promptly raised well above the tepals, giving the spadix a weakly knobby appearance.
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Araceae
The arums comprise the Family Araceae (including the numerous aroids subfamily): monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe or leaf-like hood. This family of 107 genera and over 3700 species is most diverse in the New World tropics, although also distributed in the Old World tropics and north temperate regions. Recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown that the duckweeds, previously treated in a separate family Lemnaceae, also belong in the Araceae. In monoecious aroids (possessing separate male and female flowers, but with both flowers present on one plant), the spadix is usually organized with female flowers towards the bottom and male flowers towards the top. In aroids with perfect flowers the stigma is no longer receptive when the pollen is released, thus preventing self-fertilization. There are also some dioecious species. Anthurium and Zantedeschia are two well-known members of this family, as are Colocasia esculenta (taro) and Xanthosoma roseum (Elephant ear or ‘ape). Among the largest inflorescence in the world is that of the arum, Amorphophallus titanum (Titan arum). This family includes a great many ornamental plants: Dieffenbachia, Aglaonema, Caladium, Nephthys, and Epipremnum, to name a few. In the genus Cryptocoryne are many popular aquarium plants. Both Taro and Monstera deliciosa provide food value (the fruit of Monstera deliciosa called "Mexican breadfruit"). Philodendron is an important plant in the ecosystems of the rainforests and is often used in home and interior decorating. Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) is a common North American species. A interesting peculiarity is that this family includes the largest unbranched inflorescence, that of the titan arum, often erroneously called the "largest flower" and the smallest flowering plant and smallest fruit, found in the duckweed, Wolffia. Many plants in this family are thermogenic (heat-producing). Their flowers can reach up to 45 degrees Celsius even when the surrounding air temperature is much lower. One reason for this unusually high temperature is to attract insects (usually beetles) to pollinate the plant, rewarding the beetles with heat energy. Another reason is to prevent tissue damage in cold regions. Some examples of thermogenic Araceae are: Symplocarpus foetidus (eastern skunk cabbage), Amorphophallus titanum (Titan Arum), Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (elephant foot yam), Helicodiceros muscivorus (dead hforse arum lily) and Sauromatum venosum (voodoo lily). Species such as Titan Arum and the dead horse arum give off a very pungent smell, often resembling a rotten animal. This is to attract flies to pollinate the plant. The heat produced by the plant helps to convey the scent further. The largest collection of living Araceae is maintained at Missouri Botanical Gardens. Another large collection of living Araceae can be found at Munich Botanical Garden, thanks to the efforts of the researcher and aroid authority Josef Bogner.Source : Wkipedia
List of Anthurium species
This is a list of Anthurium species:
Anthurium is a large genus of flowering plants from the arum family
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Anthurium
Anthurium (Schott, 1829), is a large genus of about 600- 800 (possibly 1,000) species, belonging to the arum family (Araceae). It is the largest and probably the most complex genus of this family. Many species are undoubtedly not described yet and new ones are being found every year. They grow in the most diverse habitats, mostly in wet tropical mountain forest of Central America and South America, but some in semi-arid environments. Most species occur in Panama, Colombia, Brazil, the Guiana Shield and Ecuador. According to the work of noted aroid botanist Dr. Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical Garden, this genus is not found in Asia. It is solely a neotropical genus found in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. http://www.aroid.org/genera/anthurium/abstrap1.htm Some species have been introduced into Asian rain forests, but are not endemic. Anthurium grows in many forms, mostly evergreen, bushy or climbing epiphytes with roots that often hang from the canopy all the way to the floor of the rain forest. There are also many terrestrial forms as well as hemiepiphytic forms. A hemiepiphyte is a plant capable of beginning life as a seed and sending roots to the soil, or beginning as a terrestrial plant that climbs a tree and then sends roots back to the soil. They occur also as lithophytes. Some are only found in association with arboreal ant colonies or growing on rocks in midstream (such as A. amnicola). The stems are short to elongate with a length between 15 and 30 cm. The simple leaves come in many shapes. Most leaves are to be found at the end of the stem. They can be spatulate, rounded, or obtuse at the apex. They may be erect or spreading in a rosette, with a length up to 40 cm. The upper surface is matted or semiglossy. The leaves are petiolate. In drier environments, the leaves can take a bird's-nest-shape rosette that enables the plant to collect falling debris, thus water and natural fertilizer. Terrestrials or epiphytes often have cordate leaves. Some grow as vines with rosettes of lanceolate leaves. Some species have many-lobed leaves. The flowers are small (about 3 mm) and develop crowded in a spike on a fleshy axis and called a spadix, a characteristic of the arums. The flowers on the spadix are often divided sexually with a sterile band separating male from female flowers. This spadix can take on many forms (club-shaped, tapered, spiraled, and globe-shaped) and colors (white, green, purple, red, pink, or a combination). The spadix is part of an inflorescence. The outer portion of the inflorescence is known as the spathe. Some people like to call the spathe a "flower", however it is simply a modified leaf. The spathe may be a single color (yellow, green, or white) or possibly multicolored including burgundy and red. That sometimes colorful, solitary spathe: a showy modified bract that can be somewhat leathery in texture. There are no flowers on the spathe as is sometimes thought. The flowers are found solely on the spadix. The spathe can vary in color from pale green to white, rose, orange or shiny red (such as A. andrenaum). The color changes between the bud stage and the anthesis, (the time the flower expands). Thus the color might change from pale green to reddish purple to reddish brown. The flowers are hermaphrodite, containing male and female flowers. The fruits are usually berries with one to multiple seeds on an infructescence that may be pendant or erect depending on species. The flowers of Anthurium give off a variety of fragrances, each attracting a variety of specific pollinators. Several species are popular in the florist trade as pot plants or cut flowers and for interior decoration. They include forms such as A. crystallinum f peltifolium with its large, velvety, darkgreen leaves and silvery white venation. Most hybrids are based on A. andreanum or A. scherzerianum because of their colorful spathes.Source : Wikipedia
