43 Fanciest Anthurium Types You Can Grow

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Famous for fantastic patterned foliage and shade-loving nature, these Fanciest Anthurium Types will add a lot of appeal to your home or garden!

With bold colors, large leaves, and unmistakable patterns, anthuriums have a certain charm about them that never goes unnoticed. Here are the most Fanciest Anthuriums Types you can grow for that tropical jungle look!

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Fanciest Anthuriums Types

1. Anthurium Ace of Spades

Botanical Name: Anthurium crystallinum

This fancy evergreen anthurium variety offers large, fuzzy, heart-shaped elongated green leaves that can grow up to 1-2 feet across, patterned in beautiful white veins.

2. Flamingo Flower

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Botanical Name: Anthurium scherzerianum

This species shows off large, shiny, lance-shaped leaves with narrow tips. Its waxy, red flowers are flat bracts that curl downward.

3. Velvet Cardboard Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium clarinervium

Velvet cardboard anthurium has striking oval, heart-shaped leathery deep green leaves with thick white veins.

4. Painter’s Palette

Botanical Name: Anthurium andreanum

This species has plastic-like, waxy, shiny, red spathes with contrasting heart-shaped deep green leaves. Some cultivars offer pink, orange, purple, or white spathes.

5. King Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium veitchii

This flowering tropical plant has huge thick, leathery, glossy, green foliage up to a foot long indoors and dangles down beautifully over the rims of the pot.

6. Queen Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium warocqueanum

It features large, lance-shaped dark-green thick, velvety leaves designed in silver-white prominent veins. In favorable growing conditions, it can grow up to 4-6 feet tall.

7. Forgetii

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Botanical Name: Anthurium forgetii

Native to Columbia, this houseplant has ovate rather than heart-shaped leaves. The large dark-green velvety foliage has lustrous stains that give them a shiny look.

8. Bird’s Nest Anthurium

Botanical Name: Anthurium hookeri

‘Bird’s Nest’ displays glossy elongated green leaves resembling a huge spoon, designed in small dots. It blooms in long purple erect spikes.

9. Black Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium watermaliense

This distinct variety has black bracts that are dark purple in reality. The dark glossy green leaves contrast beautifully with deep chocolate-colored bracts and blooms.

10. Vittarifolium

Botanical Name: Anthurium vittarifolium

It’s a strap-leaf anthurium; the dangling fuzzy deep green leaves with yellow marks are long and thin. It flowers in red blooms.

11. Big Red Bird Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium sect. pachyneurium

It features long, broad foliage with wavy edges and short stems. The leaves turn red in bright light or cool climates hence the name.

12. Magnificum

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Botanical Name: Anthurium magnificum

The heart-shaped large green leaves have pronounced cream-white veins have a velvety texture. Its new growth has brown-burgundy tones before they turn green.

13. Pendulifolium

Botanical Name: Anthurium pendulifolium

The pendulous foliage gives this species its botanical name. It has long, dangling, green leaves that look beautiful in hanging baskets.

14. Pearl Laceleaf

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Botanical Name: Anthurium scandens

It is a climbing vine variety from Southern Mexico and Brazil and has matte green, oval to lance-shaped foliage. The fruits on this anthurium appear like a cluster of white pearls, hence the name.

15. Tulip Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium amnicola

Tulip anthuriums are compact and make for a perfect indoor specimen due to ease of care. The popular cultivars are – ‘White Lady’, ‘Lilli,’ and ‘Lumina.’

16. Superbum

Botanical Name: Anthurium superbum

This exotic foliage variety has round, broad, textured green leaves with mahogany-hued undersides. It is one of the best fanciest anthuriums you can grow indoors.

17. Radicans

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Botanical Name: Anthurium radicans

This creeping variety has deeply furrowed leaves with an elegant ‘pebble’ surface. A popular hybrid ‘Dressleri’ is fungal resistant.

18. Anthurium Fingers

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Botanical Name: Anthurium pedatoradiatum

Anthurium Pedatoradiatum is a terrestrial species with heart-shaped leaves that subdivides into long lobes with time. Mature leaves develop 10-15 ‘fingers.’

19. Giant Paddle Leaf Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium coriaceum

Anthurium Coriaceum is a Brazilian bird-nest variety and displays delicately patterned, paddle-shaped, deep green velvety leaves.

20. Faustino’s Giant

Botanical Name: Anthurium faustomirandae

This Mexican cultivar has been named the ‘largest anthurium in the world’. It produces broad, rich green leaves with blue tones. Each leaf has unique lobes and a firm feel.

21. Salgarense

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Botanical Name: Anthurium salgarense

The huge, emerald green and heart-shaped leaves of this plant show off clean, outline texture and open cavity.

22. Bonplandii

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Botanical Name: Anthurium bonplandii

It’s a compact bird-nest epiphyte with thick, rubber-like foliage. The new growth has a deep purple hue and turns green with maturity.

23. Pheasants Tail Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium schlechtendalii

This anthurium has long, plume-like, thin, green, ruffled foliage. The new growth develops with a mirror-like surface that reflects light.

24. Cardboard Plant

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Botanical Name: Anthurium jenmanii

This variety stands out with large upright, stiff, thick, green leaves. Given proper light, it can be a great tabletop plant.

25. Bullatus

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Botanical Name: Anthurium bullatus

It is a trending variety. The plant’s new leaves emerge oval and elongated, taking an unusual hourglass shape with pronounced lobes.

26. Clavigerum

 

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Botanical Name: Anthurium clavigerum

It’s one of the largest and loved climbing varieties with fingerlike leaves. Every green leaf is quite varying and has wavy margins with a riffled-textured.

27. Splendidum

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Botanical Name: Anthurium splendidum

This mind-blowing species is a perfect example of bizarre yet attractive foliage. The individual leaves are big in size with a crinkled pattern.

28. Crystal Hope Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium crystallinum ‘Dorayaki’

This hybrid variety offers soft, velvety, thick, round foliage with a silver sheen. It is a great choice for small to medium-sized pots.

29. Luxurians

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Botanical Name: Anthurium luxurians

It offers quilt-like furrowed, textured, shiny, dark green leaves that look glazed. Like its name, the plant truly looks luxurious making it one of the fanciest anthuriums you can grow!

30. Corrugatum

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Botanical Name: Anthurium corrugatum

This wonderful species features densely pronounced veins with a heavy bubbled texture that appear like corrugation. The undersides of the foliage are pale and covered with powdery hair.

31. Villenoarum

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Botanical Name: Anthurium villenoarum

The light-green leaves of this variety are large, stiff, velvety, patterned in stunning white veins. The foliage slants outward from the central stem with triangular petioles.

32. Rotundistigmatum

Botanical Name: Anthurium rotundistigmatum

It’s an epiphytic species with large, triangular, and light green leaves with wide lobes. The upright petioles have purple tones near the base.

33. Friedrichsthalii

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Botanical Name: Anthurium friedrichsthalii

The strap-like, pendant foliage of this anthurium stays small and offers blue-green, narrow, thick leaves with an elevated central vein and medium-sized petioles.

34. Podophyllum

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Botanical Name: Anthurium ‘Podophyllum’

This anthurium produces fascinating and bizarre blue-green foliage in a webbed form that divides with maturity.

35. Metallicum

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Botanical Name: Anthurium metallicum

It is a rare variety with shield-shaped, broad velvety leaves. The plant grows up to 3-4 feet long patterned in deep, bright veins on a glowing surface.

36. Rugulosum

Botanical Name: Anthurium rugulosum

The deeply textured leaves of this red-line endangered Ecuadorian epiphyte. The rich deep green foliage is deeply lined with several creases and a leathery surface.

37. Regale

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Botanical Name: Anthurium ‘Regale’

This bright-veined species offer giant heart-shaped green foliage with white veins shining outward from the central line. The leaves grow up to 2-4 feet long, making it one of the largest existing anthuriums.

38. Wendlingeri

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Botanical Name: Anthurium wendlingeri

This is one of the huge anthuriums with spectacular pendant leaves and long corkscrew spadix. The leaves are long or short, skinny or fat, uniform or textured – no two plants are exactly similar!

39. Marmoratum

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Botanical Name: Anthurium marmoratum

This variety has elongated, lance-shaped, narrow velvety, green leaves with distinct, soft veins. It looks great as a corner houseplant.

40. Balaoanum

Botanical Name: Anthurium balaoanum

This climbing variety offers heartleaf-shaped, leathery, paper-thin, light green leaves with an arching space between lobes.

41. Butterfly Anthurium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium papillilaminum

The beautifully veined, heart-shaped grey-green leaves have a red tinge, while the new growth has a gorgeous violet-red hue.

42. Ovatifolium

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Botanical Name: Anthurium ovatifolium

This rare variety features finely inscribed veins on oval, rich dark green leaves. It beautifully contrasts to other broadleaf anthuriums.

43. Cutucuense

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Botanical Name: Anthurium cutucuense

This distinct and exceptional variety has many categories with fingerlike triangular shapes, bubbled bullate texture, narrow straplike leaves, and pendant growth.

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