Anthurium scandens (Pearl Laceleaf)

Botanical names: Anthurium scandens, Dracontium scandens

Common name: Pearl Laceleaf

Family: Araceae

Origin: Caribbean

Anthurium scandens is known from southern Mexico and the West Indies to southern Brazil, ranging from sea level to 2,700 m. This is the most widespread aroid in the New World and, doubtless, the most ecologically diverse as well, occurring in tropical moist, premontane wet, tropical wet, premontane rain, and lower montane rain forest life zones. This is a creeping epiphytic aroid with a aerial roots along the stem. Produces small clumps of pale lavender to almost while berries.

Similar plants: Anthurium scandens (Pearl Laceleaf)

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