Why are Anthuriums red?
Frederick B. Essig (noreply@blogger.com)
It has been speculated that the red to orange spathes in wild plants help birds find the ripe fruits, which they would eat, fly off, and thereby disperse the seeds. It's a common dispersal adaptation, found even in the most archaic of angiosperms (e.g. Amborella), and it may very well be true in this species, as well as many other species of Anthurium.
In all members of the Aroid family, flowers are tiny and crowded onto the elongate spadix. There have been many observations of pollination by...