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Anthurium, The Idol January 17, 2009

Filed under: Anthurium — smgardenindo @ 11.06

Anthurium, Indonesian new idol. Those words might be the most suitable phrase to describe Anthurium. All of the people discuss anthurium, not only gardener, but also businessman, doctors, laborers and housewives. This plant does not have place in ornamental plants previous trend. 2 years ago, Anthurium had been appeared as newcomers in ornamental plants market in Indonesia and immediately became popular.

Anthurium popularity can not be separated from its history. Indonesian people recognize Anthurium as the plant collection of the kings in the land of Java. Before 2007, Anthurium is a rare plant. I wonder, Anthurium only owned by the collector of ornamental plants.

There are many types of Anthurium, some of them has beautiful flower, and some of them has beautiful leaves. The price also varies, from thousands rupiah up to hundreds millions and even billions rupiah, depend on its uniqueness and rareness.

Anthurium is one of the tropical ornamental plants, include in the family to taro. The characteristic of this family is consist of spathe and spadik. Anthurium consists of thousands species, some of them can be used as ornamental plants. Some of them have beautiful leaves; some of them have beautiful flowers. The flowering Anthurium has become a beautiful pot plant and cut flower. Although Anthurium is not native plant from Indonesia, it fit with Indonesian climate. Several types of Anthurium cut flowers have become export commodity to some countries. Meanwhile, pot plant Anthurium and Anthurium leaf, kept as indoor plants.

We, SM Garden, provide Anthurium jenmanii and Anthurium plowmanii as known as Anthurium Wave of Love. Contact us at +6285-646479430 or sm.garden@yahoo.com. 

 

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