Anthurium

by Ann Johndro-Collins

Title

Anthurium

Artist

Ann Johndro-Collins

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Photograph - Photography

Description

Featured Artist in FAA Women Photographers 3/15/13, Featured Artist in FFA Artists News 3/14/13. Photo taken at Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida.
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Anthurium are sometimes called "flamingo flower" and was discovered in 1876 in Colombia, South America. Anthurium flowers are small and develop crowded in a spike on a fleshy axis called a spadix. 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).
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Anthurium inflorescence: The spadix is part of an inflorescence, the outer portion of which is known as the spathe. The spathe may be a single color (yellow, green, or white) or possibly multicolored including burgundy and red. That sometimes colorful, solitary spathe is a showy modified bract that can be somewhat leathery in texture. Anthurium grown for the florist trade generally have highly coloured spathes and spadices. There are no flowers on the spathe as is sometimes thought; flowers are found solely on the spadix. The spathe can vary in color from pale green to white, rose, orange or shiny red. The color changes between the bud stage and the time the flower expands. Thus the color might change from pale green to reddish purple to reddish brown.
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The flowers are hermaphrodite, containing male and female flowers. The fruits are usually berries with one to multiple seeds that may be pendant or erect depending on species. Anthurium berries may range in colour from bright red to black, and may also be bicoloured or shaded.
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The flowers of Anthurium give off a variety of fragrances, each attracting a variety of specific pollinators. All Anthurium flowers are poisonous if eaten.

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March 13th, 2013

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