A gift of anthurium confesses a man’s intense attraction.
Also known as the tail flower and the flamingo flower, the anthurium manages somehow to be both comic and impressive.
The novelist J. K. Huysmans described anthurium: “There sprang from the middle of this bright, vermillion heart a fleshy, downy tail, all yellow and white.” The spathe or “tail” of the anthurium is actually a spike of many tiny flowers.
Native to South America, these flowers in northern latitudes will survive only in a heated greenhouse.