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Anthurium hookeri is a tropical epiphyte in the arum family, grown for its large, upright, nest-like rosette of leaves. Houseplants sold under this name are usually hybrids, not the true species, and it needs humid warmth and bright indirect light.
Anthurium hookeri, commonly called a bird's nest anthurium, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Anthurium. Anthurium hookeri possesses some unique features which include, short internodes, dense roots, and lanceolate cataphylls. The leaves have triangular to D-shaped petioles 2–9 cm long, are rosulate, 10–26 cm wide, 35–89 cm long. The leaves exhibit a scalariforme venation and supervolute vernation. Covering the leaves are tiny black glandular punctuates. The berries produced by the plant are white.
Previously categorized in the Anthurium sect. Pachyneurium which has superficially similar species, its colloquial name refers to the upright, nest-like appearance of its foliage. Specimens sold in the houseplant trade are almost always hybrids, not species.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anthurium hookeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
