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Montrichardia linifera
Aninga is an aquatic arum-family plant from tropical South America that forms dense stands along rivers and wetlands, reaching up to about 7 m tall. It is a wetland species rather than a typical houseplant, and it needs standing or waterlogged soil to thrive.
Montrichardia linifera, also known under the common name aninga, is a tropical plant native to South America. The aquatic species is a helophyte and can grow up to seven meters in height. The plant often grows in monospecific stands and thickes along rivers, lakes and other wetlands.
M. linifera can be differentiated from the similar M. arborescens by several characteristics, including having a spathe tube that is greenish-white internally and a spathe blade that is yellowish externally, while M. arborescens has a spathe-tube that is reddish internally and a spathe-blade that is green externally.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Montrichardia linifera 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.
