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Anthurium andraeanum Linden ex André

Flamingo-Lily, anthurium, flamingo-flower, flamingo-lily

Climate known 45 photographs Tropical foliage plant
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Summary

Anthurium andraeanum, also known as Édouard François André's Tailflower, is a flowering plant species in the family Araceae that is native to Colombia and Ecuador. It is a winner of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Text from Wikipedia, “Anthurium andraeanum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Anthurium

Anthurium is a genus of about 1,000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, pigtail plant, and laceleaf.

Text from Wikipedia, “Anthurium”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Araceae
Described by
Linden ex André
Native to
Colombia, Ecuador
Wild records
314 in range· 114 open

At a glance

Warmest month
24°C
Mar, mean day; nights 17 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
2750mm/yr
12 wet months · peak May 315 mm (CHELSA)
Light
27–33DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by the genus Anthurium, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to June and August to November at the habitat (not shifted)). Habitat rain 2750 mm a year, wettest May at 315 mm, driest January at 140 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 27 to 33 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 13.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Anthurium andraeanum subsp. album Pynaert; Anthurium andraeanum subsp. delicatissimum Pynaert; Anthurium andraeanum var. album (Pynaert) W.Bull; Anthurium andraeanum var. amoenum Pynaert; Anthurium andraeanum var. atrosanguineum Pynaert and 7 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by the genus Anthurium, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to June and August to November at the habitat (not shifted)).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (2072 mm of 2750 mm) takes 8 months, March to June and August to November. Mean temperature moves 0.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere, within 10° of the equator; with no thermal season there there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 2750 mm a year, wettest May at 315 mm, driest January at 140 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

2750 mm a year at the habitat, 2072 mm of it March to June and August to November. Wettest month May at 315 mm, driest January at 140 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1476 mm to 6860 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 27 to 33 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 27 to 33 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 20, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 13.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 13.4 °C, the absolute minimum 12.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 29.2 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 16.4 °C in January (across the envelope cells 11.6 °C to 21.4 °C), warmest day 23.8 °C in March (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 13.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER); the archetype table's minimum for a tropical foliage plant, 12 °C, is lower and does not raise it.

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence, and the archetype table's group minimum where that is higher. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 66 to 71% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearA flat year: mean day about 24 °C and mean night about 16 °C in every month, so the cold quarter is shaded by rounding only. 2750 mm of rain a year, most in May. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 222 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 12.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 29.2 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°15°20°25°30°35°29.2° 99th-percentile day (undated)12.3° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0200400600800mm rainDLI 27–33RH 66–71 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 222 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C23 / 19–2824 / 20–2924 / 20–2924 / 20–2824 / 20–2823 / 19–2723 / 19–2823 / 20–2823 / 20–2823 / 19–2823 / 19–2823 / 19–28
Night °C16 / 12–2117 / 12–2217 / 12–2217 / 12–2217 / 12–2217 / 12–2117 / 11–2117 / 11–2117 / 12–2117 / 12–2117 / 12–2117 / 12–21
Rain mm140 / 62–574160 / 85–545227 / 122–646299 / 175–770315 / 150–792213 / 82–648184 / 60–549195 / 63–457229 / 95–530310 / 160–562284 / 144–510194 / 96–565
DLI30 / 21–3432 / 22–3532 / 23–3629 / 21–3328 / 20–3327 / 20–3529 / 21–3832 / 21–3933 / 20–3829 / 20–3527 / 20–3328 / 20–32
RH %68 / 62–7868 / 62–7768 / 63–7670 / 65–7670 / 65–7668 / 63–7767 / 61–7766 / 60–7868 / 62–7970 / 64–7871 / 65–7870 / 64–78

Each figure is the median across the 222 grid cells holding the 307 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1774:2038 (1.275, -78.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 12.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 13.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 29.2 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 222 distinct grid cells holding the 307 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1774:2038 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 1.50_-78.125, lapse-corrected +711 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1353 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeColombia, Ecuador· introduced: Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
Kew's description“epiphytic subshrub” · “wet tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker4.668, -75.665 · in the densest population, 195 records (62% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 314 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 114 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 538 km away. 580 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 314 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Alan Rockefeller, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Diogo Luiz, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) agujaceratops, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Anthurium andraeanum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Polyamine Function in Plants: Metabolism, Regulation on Development, and Roles in Abiotic Stress Responses
Dandan Chen, Qingsong Shao, Lianghong Yin, Adnan Younis (2019) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Achieving environmentally sustainable growing media for soilless plant cultivation systems – A review
G. Barrett, P.D. Alexander, J.S. Robinson, N.C. Bragg (2016) · Scientia Horticulturae
Biotechnology Applications of Plant Callus Cultures
Thomas Efferth (2018) · Engineering
MYB-Mediated Regulation of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis
Huiling Yan, Xiaona Pei, Heng Zhang, Xiang Li (2021) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
A Comparative Analysis of Medicinal Plants Used by Folk Medicinal Healers in Three Districts of Bangladesh and Inquiry as to Mode of Selection of Medicinal Plants
Mohammed Ariful Haque Mollik, Md Shahadat Hossan, Alok Kumar Paul, M. Taufiq-ur-Rahman (2010) · Ethnobotany Research and Applications
Optimal Leaf Positions for SPAD Meter Measurement in Rice
Zhaofeng Yuan, Qiang Cao, Ke Zhang, Syed Tahir Ata-Ul-Karim (2016) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Ornamental Plants as Invasive Aliens: Problems and Solutions in Kruger National Park, South Africa
Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, David M. Richardson, John R. Wilson (2007) · Environmental Management
Integration of silicon and secondary metabolites in plants: a significant association in stress tolerance
Mohammad Abass Ahanger, Javaid Akhter Bhat, Manzer H. Siddiqui, Jörg Rinklebe (2020) · Journal of Experimental Botany
Microsporogenesis in Monocotyledons
Carol A. Furness (1999) · Annals of Botany

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Anthurium 1 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 62 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.