Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Varietes Anthurium

The anthuriums are collector's plants, and many of the most magnificent varieties are rare outside of greenhouses and botanical gardens. Varieties include:
  • A. andreanum. Heart-shaped leaves up to 1 ft., with flowers available in red, white, pink and variegated. Distinguished by a straight flower spike.
  • A. scherzerianum. The most forgiving of anthuriums, it features a curling orange flower spike. Leaves are arrow shaped.
  • A. crystallinum. Deep green, velvety leaves with pronounced white ribs. Leaves up to 2 ft. across.
  • A. faustinomirandae. A monster with cardboard-stiff leaves up to 5 ft. long. A greenhouse plant.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Anthurium

Leaves Anthurium

Flowers Anthurium
Anthurium including plants from the Araceae family. This beautiful leaved plants still allied with a number of popular ornamental plants such aglaonema, philodendron, ornamental taro, and alokasia. In the family Araceae, Anthurium is a genus with the largest number of species. It is estimated there are about 1000 species of genus Anthurium.

These plants include evergreen plants or do not know the period of dormancy. The wild, these plants usually live in epiphyte with a stick in the trunk. Can also live in terrestrial forest floor.

The main attraction of anthurium is a beautiful leaf shape, unique, and varied. The leaves are generally dark green leaves with veins and bones large and prominent. So that makes the figure of this plant looks sturdy but still radiates elegance when adult. Not surprisingly, these plants have a luxurious and exclusive. In the past, anthurium many ornate gardens and the palace became the kingdoms in Java. That said, revered as the king of crops.

In general, the anthurium is divided into two kinds of leaves and the kind anthurium anthurium flowers. Anthurium leaf has allure, especially from other forms of special leaves. While the flower anthurium further highlight both the diversity of interest and of species hybrids. Usually the type of anthurium flowers used for cut flowers.

Adenium

Adenium or Cambodia, Japan (Japanese frangipani name itself is actually misleading, because it can be identified with frangipani, which is mostly found in the area of the cemetery. While frills Japanese words as if the flowers are from Japan, whereas Adenium originated from West Asia and Africa) come from a dry desert area, west of mainland Asia to Africa. It is called there is a Desert Rose (desert rose). Because they come from arid regions, these plants prefer dry conditions than the media is too wet. Called as Adenium, because one is a local place of origin Adenium Aden (capital of Yemen).
Indonesian Society named Adenium as frangipani Japan, may be associated with stereotypes that circulate. Examples of fruits that are commonly referred to as Bangkok, while a small plant called Japanese, so if there is Cambodia's long ago that figure was tall plants, the plants so there is a small figure but similar frangipani, frangipani is called as Japanese.
Actually is kind Plumeria frangipani, distant relatives of Adenium. Some of the differences between the Plumeria Adenium are as follows:

    
* Adenium large trunked with the bottom resembles a bulb, but the figure itself was small plants with small leaves long. Adenium Root can also be enlarged like tubers.
    
* Plumeria small trunked without any form of elongated tubers, with the figure of plants that can grow big and tall, with long leaves and large shapes.

Adenium

Adenium Root tubers are enlarged as a place to store water as a reserve in times of drought. The roots of this enlarged when raised above the ground will form a unique impression as bonsai. While the software is not woody stem (also known as a succulent), but can be enlarged.
Side shoots to grow from buds on stems or leaves of autumn marks. Side buds that will work (grow) when the shoots of cut plants. This is what people do when memprunning or cut, to get a new leaf and flower for which will appear later on more in unison.
 Adenium leaves there are various kinds, oval shape, pointed, small and large, and some fluffy, some are without fur. While Adenium flowers shaped like a trumpet, valvate 5, with various color according to species (varieties), respectively.
There are 2 groups of Adenium, ie groups of species (native species), and Variety (the result of mating types and crosses by man to seek new forms). Some native species such as Adenium Adenium Arabicum, characteristic of short and large hump shape, with many stems emerging from the top of the hump. The flowers are white and pink colored alloy, small (diameter petal less than 5 cm). Adenium obesum, characteristic large hump shape and somewhat elongated upwards, one stem growing over the hump, the above branching stems emerge. Flower color red and white blend, large flowered (more than 5 cm). The types of other species is Adenium Socotranum Adenium, Adenium swazicum, somalense Adenium, Adenium bohemianum.