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Anthurium Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A tropical houseplant with glossy leaves and long-lasting red or pink spathes, needing warmth and bright shade.

Anthurium

Anthurium andraeanum

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Active growthFloweringRest period

Guides

Pests and diseases (4)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Anthracnose

Disease

Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.

Root-knot Nematode

Pest

The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up and the roots carry beaded chains of galls of varying size with few fine roots.

Plant-parasitic NematodesBacterial Brown Spot

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