Crossword-Solution: ANTHURIUM 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Similar anomalies occur in other Arads as _Arum maculatum_, _Richardia æthiopica_, and _Anthurium Scherzerianum_, frequently combined with a leaf-like appearance of the spathes and sometimes with a subdivision of the spadix into two or three branches.

Showing in succession (from below) female flowers, male flowers, and sterile flowers forming a ring of hairs borne on the spadix.] The small flowers are densely crowded on thick fleshy spikes, which are associated with, and often more or less enveloped by, a large leaf (bract), the so-called spathe, which, as in cuckoo-pint, where it is green in colour, _Richardia_, where it is white, creamy or yellow, _Anthurium_, where it is a brilliant scarlet, is often the most striking feature of the plant.

FLAMINGO FLOWER _Anthurium andraeanum Linden_ Among the most popular of Hawaii’s exotic flowers are the Anthuriums, for the very good reason that they will last as long as three weeks if they are cut in their prime.

They belong to the Arum family, of which the Calla lily is also a member, and the Anthurium blossom is similar in general form to the Calla.

SPATHIPHYLLUM _Spathiphyllum species_ A blossom like a small, white Anthurium, but more fragile and with a large, rough spadix, is the Spathiphyllum.