Commercial Floriculture

Growth and development

• Anthurium passes through two distinctive growth phases,

  • a juvenile phase and
  • a generative phase.
• The juvenile phases where only vegetative growth is observed and characterized by the presence of vegetative buds in the axils of the leaf.
• The juvenile phase is relatively long and the plants remain vegetative for 12-18 months.
• The plants enter the generative phase characterized by the transformation of vegetative buds to floral buds in the leaf axils.
• The sequence of a new leaf and emergence of flower is more or less maintained from then onwards.