Anthurium
Attached to Morrill Science Building III is the Ray Ethan Torrey Botanical Collection at the Morrill Greenhouses. Viewing the abundance of plant species was disappointing in the main collection holding as well as Collection House A. It was not until Collection House B where I viewed what I sought, potted on the floor next to the opening leading to the further portion of Collection House B. Getting closer I saw in more detail, the bright pink leaf with erected yellow spadix of Anthurium andraeanum, also called the flamingo flower. Taking my phone, I took a picture capturing the 3 prominent leaves with their spadices, ensuring to also capture the second pot to its left, which contained a smaller pink leaf and its spadix surrounded by the green leaves with the absence of these spadices. Coming out with a centered image of the lower standing Anthurium andraeanum on the left and the taller standing on the right (Fig. A). Examining the closest of the 3 prominent leaves with spadices, I took another picture with a birds-eye-view to capture the pink leaf and its spadix parallel with its green leaf which lied below (Fig. B). Intriguing to the image, was the shape of the pink leaf which resemble that of an inverted heart with the spadix up the center showing the green leaf as if it was connected in one line with the pink leaf. Further research pinpointed that Anthurium andraeanum is native to Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuelan Antilles, and Windward Islands, coloring these areas red on a blank map of North and South America (Fig. C) (Anthurium… n.d.). Congregating these figures with the picture of 3 prominent leaves and one smaller leaf above the lone leaf with spadix picture on the left portion. Both beside the vertically mapped range of the Anthurium andraeanum, which lay the height of the combined first two figures.
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