Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Does anyone grow Anthurium hookeri?, 1 by ExoticRainforest

ExoticRainforest wrote:
Another distinctive characteristic is a newly emerging leaf unfurls in a way that is not seen in other birds nest Anthurium species. The unusual way the new leaves of Anthurium hookeri are rolled is known as being supervolute and is very unusual in most species. That term indicates the newly possess coils or folds in overlapping whorls. Vernation refers to the arrangement of young leaf blades and supervolute vernation is to possess a convolute arrangement in the folding or arrangement of a newly emerging leaf blade with one margin (edge) of the newly blade emerging rolled inward toward the midrib and the opposite margin rolled around the midrib o the opposite leaf f in a manner similar to the coil at the end of a conch shell.

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