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Feb 7, 2015 7:42 PM CST
Name: Dave Paul
Puna, HI (Zone 10b)
Live in a rainforest, get wet feet.
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As described by the Aroid Society the wild Anthurium andraeanum has a viney epiphytic habit, while the hybrids are suckering clumpers.

You couldn't cross any species with itself and call it a hybrid.

The Anthurium andraeanum hybrids involve other species. The reason the naming authorities don't list something like Anthurium X cultorum is because it's not a natural species.

It seems right that if the plant is a known named hybrid it's epithet would look something like Anthurium 'Cultivar'.

If a cultivar name is not known then Anthurium X cultorum, as the Aroid Society suggests, would make sense.

Unless Anthurium andraeanum can be shown as a vine growing up a tree, it should not be believable. The term should not be used to describe the clumping plants, which like to grow around the base of trees, that we are used to.

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