Anthurium vittariifolium

A species from the wet, tropical forests of the Amazon basin; southeast Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Brazil, where it grows as an epiphyte, perching on the trees’ branches and climbing or creeping along them, using its fleshy roots to cling to the bark. The elegant, strap-shaped, vertically hanging foliage, is highly ornamental and the glossy leaf blade, can be up to 2m long and 5-7 cm wide on mature specimens, although usually smaller in cultivation. The plant can reach 1.5m high. The foliage colour is green, with prominent, but thin, pale green veins. The flowers are not very showy, and these consist of a pale green, sheath-like spathe, surrounding a cream-coloured spadix or column. The small flowers along the spadix, are self-fertile, and on mature plants can produce attractive, pink berries, that completely cover the spadix. It is the spectacular foliage, however, that is the main asset of this plant