An Excellent Aroid for Teaching - Anthurium fatoense

Plate 2. The berries of Anthurium fatoense advertise themselves well as they ripen and pop out from the spadix. Typically each berry contains two seeds.

A. Anthurium fatoense as I first saw it in Costa Rica.

C. Viewed from the top A. fatoense gives every indication of the typical a birds nest growth habit.

B. Anthurium fatoense growing in the tropical collections teaching greenhouse at Vanderbilt University, where it hangs over the mist bench.

D. A close-up of the stem is almost obscured by the clusters of adventitious roots that grow out at each node. Some of these roots grow on and attach to the host tree, while others grow up vertically from 13 inches and then stop, ready to catch debris that falls onto the leaves and then slides down towards the central part of the plant.