Friday, July 29, 2011

Tulip Anthuriums: A Short Introduction

By Keola Kawanako


Tulip anthuriums initially come from the sunny South American nation of Panama. Within the wild, they prefer to live on boulders which are positioned beside streams. I guess they enjoy hanging out by streams, much like fly fishermen do.

They're a most superb selection of anthurium, simply because they have a pleasing, sweet-smelling scent plus they may produce up to eight blooms a year. Moreover, they make superb house plants, simply because they're small and don't use up plenty of space.

They are an interesting variety of anthurium mainly because of the exceptional shape of their flowers. Instead of being heart shaped like most other anthuriums, they're tulip shaped. They have light purple petals and dark purple noses. I like how they're similar to tulips with an exotic ambiance. Pure-breed Amnicola generate small, dark-green, spade shaped foliage and small flowers with small stems that normally max out at twelve inches long.

Amnicola has often been hybridized with Anthurium Andraeanum to produce a variety of flower colors, which can be: red, purple, pink, green, fuschia, lavender and white. Hybrid amnicola and pure-breed amnicola can both yield as much as 8 blossoms a year, which means that your amnicola might have blossoms on it all year round. What's more , it sprouts offshoots very readily, so it really is perfect if you desire to produce more plants. You may allow offshoots develop for a while and when they're large enough you can separate them from the parent plant and put them in their very own containers.

Many of the hybrids may have interesting names such as Misty Pink, Lady Jane, Pink Elf and Pink Champagne. Others have less imaginative names like: Andraecola-1 and Andraecola-2 that were produced by taking the first part of Andraeanum along with the last part of Amnicola and putting them together. Needless to say these will probably be provided with other names eventually.




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