Flamingo flower
Anthurium andraeanum Linden ex André
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 38 cm
- wide
- 27 cm
Araceae
Also called Painter's-palette, Anthurium, Flamingo-lily
Formerly Anthurium venustum
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Epiphytic subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Colombia to EcuadorKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 1–1.5 ft
- Spread
- 23 cm to 30 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 9–12 in
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- RedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS red; NC State Extension green, orange, pink, red, white
- Coldest it survives
- 9.7 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 15 °C; NC State Extension 4.4 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Anturio
- Chinese
- 粉掌, 火鶴, 紅掌
- French
- Anthurium d'André, Anthure d'André
- Polish
- Anturium Andrego
- Czech
- toulitka Andréova
- Russian
- Антуриум Андре
- Lithuanian
- Kolumbinis anturis
- Italian
- Anturio
- Chinese (China)
- 花烛, 火鹤花, 红掌
- Portuguese
- Antúrio, Flor-de-Jorge-Tadeu
- Vietnamese
- Hồng Môn
- Swedish
- rosenkalla
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Anthurium andraeanum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.