Anthurium cubense
Anthurium cubense is a large bird's-nest Anthurium from lowland Cuba, southeastern Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela. Its big, leathery leaves up to about 80 cm long form a rosette that funnels litter and rain to the roots. It grows in dry, semi-deciduous and humid lowland forest, on the ground, on rocks or on trees, so it is a tough, warm-growing plant that forgives short dry spells.
Where it grows wild
A rosette-forming herb of lowland forest. Specimen labels record it as a terrestrial herb in the interior of humid forest remnants in Colombia, in semi-deciduous forest in Cuba, and in dry forest and marsh margins in Nicaragua. It is also rupicolous on rock. Like other bird's-nest Anthuriums it also grows as an epiphyte.
Herbarium altitudes run from near sea level to about 470 m (Nicaragua 40–100 m, Cuba 160 m, Colombian Sierra Nevada foothills 330–410 m, Sucre 470 m). It is a lowland species.
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