Some time ago I bought this anthurium which the seller said was a "climbing anthurium" but didn't know what its proper name was. It has running stems which don't seem to go anywhere or develop into anything. I've tried looking it up and couldn't find anything like it. Just wondering if anyone can ID it please. Thanks.
This is a close up of the smaller leaves.
Doesn't look like Anthurium to me - I have several real climbing Anthurium and none have leaves like that. In fact, I know of no Anthurium species with mature leaves like the ones pictured. My bet would be a species of Monstera.
LariAnn
Aroidia Research
Amydrium - maybe someone got the name confused with anthurium!
My plant is in reasonably heavy shade with only a small part of the day getting filtered sunlight. It's had lots of heavy rainfall and even a flood, with overhead irrigation in between. I've had it 2 - 3 months. Despite the heat, deluges, floods and bore water it still has those glossy bright leaves.
I can see the resemblance to Monsteras in the photos, but looking at the actual plant the resemblance isn't there. I did look up Monstera but nothing came up resembling it.
Checked Amydrium, the closest I could get in images was Amydrium zippelianum (Schott) D.H.Nicolson. The image was of a much older plant than mine, larger leaves and narrower lobes.
The centre where I bought it often get plants from Arden Dearden, particularly Anthuriums, so that's probably how the mix up started. They must have assumed it was just another of the Anthuriums.
Yes Amydrium I tried to compare it to the species I have and I am not sure if it is any of the four species I am growing. It will be interesting to see how it matures.
The Amydrium hasn't shown much growth/change in the leaves in the past 3 months, but those fine runners/stems have taken off through the garden and are up to 2 metres long. Some are producing small plants at the ends, some are still moving along. They go around the bases of trees and none of them have shown any inclination to climb the trees. Seems it only wants to be a ground dweller. Wondering just how rampant it might become in the wet season when it's hot and humid as it seems to have reached a maturity now. We're in the middle of winter now, coldest night temperatures and lowest humidity during the daytime yet it's spreading out. Maybe it prefers to do that in the coldest part of the year.
It would seem it is a running plant as opposed to climbing.
Just wait till your spring and summer, I have a feeling it will be
more like a ground cover.
Alison, I got a very rampant peperomia that I've been trying to get rid of, or at least under control, for the past few years. Wouldn't mind replacing it with the amydrium as a ground cover.
Good deal, TB. I hope it shades it out for you.
And the amydrium is supposed to bloom!
It should climb it may start climbing in the wet season. I find that they are more reluctant to climb dry wood posts but put a damp moss pole around them and they grow right up it. I believe they are staying closer to the moisture for now. Like most in this group you will probably not see mature leaves or flowers until it starts to grow. Once mature a top cutting can be taken and it usually will not revert back to juvenile stage.
