![]() Symptoms may include: Irritation of mouth and digestive symptoms if ingested irritation of skin and eyes following contact with sap.If you know me, you know how much I don’t like common names! So I’ll just stick with Anthurium which is the genus. Poisonous through dermatitis, ingestion, and eye irritant. CAUSES SEVERE PAIN IN THE MOUTH IF EATEN! SKIN IRRITATION MINOR OR LASTING ONLY FOR A FEW MINUTES. Poisonous to Humans: Poison Severity: High Poison Symptoms: TOXIC ONLY IF LARGE QUANTITIES EATEN.Landscape: Landscape Location: Container Houseplants Problems: Contact Dermatitis Poisonous to Humans. ![]() Stem: Stem Is Aromatic: No Stem Description: Short, erect, sometimes elongate, climbing, with adventitious aerial roots.They are palmately veined and may have lighter colored veins than the rest of the leaf surface. The petiole is usually long and pulvinate at apex. Leaves: Leaf Color: Green Leaf Feel: Glossy Leathery Leaf Type: Simple Leaf Arrangement: Alternate Leaf Shape: Auriculate Cordate Ovate Leaf Margin: Entire Lobed Hairs Present: No Leaf Description: The leaves of this genus are alternately arranged on a basal stem, simple, crowded, cordate to ovate or even auriculate to sagittate in shape, acute with a truncate to subcordate base, entire or palmately lobed, peltate, and are glossy and moderately coriaceous (leathery) in texture.It is usually flat, sometimes hooded, erect, spreading or reflexed, margins not overlapping at base, and deeply veined. The spathe is persistent and in right angle to spadix, an identifying feature for this genus. The spadix is erect, cylindric, often tapering, sometimes twisted. Flowers: Flower Color: Gold/Yellow Green Purple/Lavender Red/Burgundy Variegated White Flower Inflorescence: Spadix Flower Value To Gardener: Long-lasting Showy Flower Petals: Bracts Flower Description: The flowers are small, in a slender (white, green, or yellow) spadix with a spathe below which may be shiny red, white, or other colors.Fruit: Fruit Type: Berry Fruit Description: A globose berry.Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Loam (Silt) Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Moist.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial Houseplant Perennial Poisonous Habit/Form: Erect.Attributes: Genus: Anthurium Family: Araceae Life Cycle: Perennial Country Or Region Of Origin: Mexico to Tropical America Dimensions: Height: 2 ft.Tags: #poisonous #houseplant #white flowers #shrub #red flowers #green flowers #yellow flowers #low light #bright light #interiorscape #waxy #spadix #spathe #shiny #herbaceous perennials #leathery #fantz #tropical feel #heart-shaped leaves #hsc #hsc-fl #perennial Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: ![]() VIDEO Created by Laura Barth for " Houseplants, Succulents, and Cacti", a plant identification course offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens. ![]()
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