In this post, I am going to take a look at anthurium flowers. With the advent of the plane these lovely, exotic blooms might be discovered around the globe, even in a number of the less than tropical regions of the globe.
Less than 200 years back, anthurium flowers looked entirely different than the way they look nowadays. They yielded much plainer looking blossoms plus they lived untouched by man within the Amazonian jungles of South America. It was not until the late 19th century that they had been unveiled in Hawaii by a person called Samuel Damon. And it also wasn't until the 1940s that they started looking similar to the blossoms that we observe these days.
The nineteen forties ended up being the decade when Hawaii's anthurium growers figured out the way to selectively breed these types of blooms to generate the spectacular kinds of blooms which we have today. Before this, these kinds of plants were propagated solely by cuttings, and when propagated by cuttings, the child plants turn out looking exactly like the parent plants. Though with the rise of selective breeding, out of this somewhat plain looking plant three key flower varieties were developed: standard, obake and tulip.
If you have seen an anthurium, it's likely that, you've observed a standard variety. These kinds of anthuriums normally are available in solid colors and are heart shaped; the most well-known color being red. While obake anthuriums, on the other hand, are bigger than standard anthuriums and they normally come in a stretched out heart shape and usually come in two or more hues. And finally, tulip anthuriums are shaped like tulips and come in pleasing hues such as pink, white and purple. They're generally more compact than obake or standard anthuriums.
From the 1950s forward, the anthurium business has increased a great deal in Hawaii and it has also spread outside of the borders of the state. In fact, the industry has fanned out to the Mauritius, Netherlands and even the ancestral home of these types of plants, South America.
