Anthurium veitchii
An epiphyte endemic to the wet forests of Chocó and Antioquia in Colombia, famous for its long, pendent, corrugated leaves that can reach 1–2 m in the wild. It grows higher on trunks than most velvet anthuriums, so it takes somewhat brighter filtered light, but it still needs constant humidity, mild temperatures and a well-aerated root zone.
Where it grows wild
Epiphyte on trunks and branches in very wet premontane and lower montane forest on the Pacific and western Andean slopes. Its leaves hang down from the stem, and it sits well above the forest floor where light is brighter than in the understory.
Colombian flora data give 300–1510 m; the wild records measured here span 300–1703 m with a median of about 1020 m, mostly premontane forest.
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