Meet Anthurium: An architectural beauty, a NASA clean air plant, hermaphroditic – but toxic to mammals if eaten.

Anthurium is a genus of flowering herb, with more than 1000 varietals and cultivars. At Sundari, we’re cultivating a wide variety of Anthurium, mostly derived from anthurium andraeanum, and they are little easter egg surprises of color in wide swaths of tropical greens. Anthurium is loved as a houseplant because it likes warm, humid, shade- and it cleans the air- and for cut flower arrangements.

The Spathe
This is the vibrant lance or heart-shaped, waxy, brightly colored part of the plant….

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