The Aroid Family | Araceae Pollination & Flowers | Flowering Houseplants Series

This video covers the Aroid flower structure and what happens during pollination. If you're into philodendrons, monsteras, peace lilies, and other members of the Araceae family, you might find this information interesting. Let me know if there's another family you'd enjoy me covering!

I also cover native Aroids to my region, along with those that have been used by humans for medicinal or edible purposes. Also comment down below if there are native Aroids in your area!

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
01:02 Aroid Inflorescence Structure
02:36 Aroid Pollination
03:32 What Pollinates Aroids?
04:39 Native Aroids to Eastern North America
05:55 A few Medicinal Aroids
07:53 Edible Aroids
08:43 Outro / Comment Down Below!

Plants mentioned or pictured in this video:
-Spathiphyllum (Peace Lilies)
-Anthuriums
-Anthurium lancifolium
-Philodendrons
-Symplocarpus foetidus
-Arisaema triphyllum
-Zamioculcas zamiifolia (pictured)
-Dieffenbachia
-Syngonium
-Homalomena
-Aglaonema commutatum ‘Treubii’
-Rhaphidophora decursiva
-Homalomena aromatica
-Alocasia macrorrhizos
-Amorphophallus peoniifolius
-Colocasia esculenta
-Xanthosoma sagittifolium

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Resources used:
-https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
-https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?Lati...
-https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?Lati...
-https://wp.stolaf.edu/naturallands/wo...
-https://www.exoticrainforest.com/Natu....
-http://bioff.forest.ku.ac.th/PDF_FILE...

Photos used are either mine or captioned via Creative Commons License, listed below:
-“Anthurium lancifolium (Araceae)” by Dr. Alexey Yakovlev is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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-“File:Colony of Eastern Skunk Cabbage in Imazu Takashima Shiga prefo7bs1800.jpg” by 633highland is licensed under CC BY 2.5
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-“Jack-in-the-Pulpit” by Ted is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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-“File:Amorphophallus Paeoniifolius h.jpg” by J A Forbes is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
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