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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
