Anthurium scandens

Common name: Pearl Anthurium

Family: Araceae

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Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America

Description: This is the most widespread aroid in the New World and, doubtless, the most ecologically diverse as well, occurring in tropical moist, premontane wet, tropical wet, premontane rain, and lower montane rain forest life zones. This is a creeping epiphytic aroid with a aerial roots along the stem. Produces small clumps of pale lavender to almost while berries.⁴

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USDA Zone: 10b-11

Source: Unknown

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Classification:

• Division: Magnoliophyta
• Class: Liliopsida
• SubClass: monocots
• Order: Alismatales
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• Family: Araceae
• SubFamily: Pothoideae
• Tribe: Anthurieae
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References:

1. Anthurium scandens at International Aroid Society. Accessed 8 June 2015.
2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 18 May 2015.
3. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 18 May 2015
4. Anthurium scandens at Top Tropicals. Accessed 18 May 2015.

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