Anthurium clidemioides

A small climbing Anthurium from lowland wet forest in Costa Rica, western Panama and north-western Colombia. It creeps up tree trunks on thin stems, rooting along the internodes, and has short-stalked, heart-shaped, strongly puckered (bullate) leaves 7–14 cm long. It needs warm, humid, shady conditions and a surface to climb.

At home, aim for

Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodClimber

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte in tropical wet forest. Its thin, scandent stems (2–3 mm thick, with corky tubercles) climb tree trunks, rooting between the nodes as well as at them, which is rare in Anthurium. It lives low on trunks in the humid, shaded forest interior.

Mostly lowland: half of the GBIF records with an elevation are at 100 m or below and three-quarters at 300 m or below, with a few up to about 1,500 m.

Costa RicaPanamáColombia

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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