Anthurium Pendens

Anthurium Pendens is one of the 'pendant' Anthuriums that has its apex growing straight down towards the earth. Even if planted upright, in cultivation the plant will grow over the edge of the container and then straight down, the long thin leaves dangling towards the floor.

In one of its known habitats, along the Rio Guanche, this species seems to like large trees of a particular species and is most often found attached to the bare trunk with its totally exposed roots spreading out flush against the bark in a generally horizontal direction. The leaves, looking like green neckties, lay flat against the trunk.