The University of Hawaii posseses an agriculture program that's been one of the frontrunners in making new anthurium plants during the last handful of decades. This university has been at the forefront of making cultivars that are: far more immune to disease, greater yielding, a lot more colorful and able to last longer following being harvested. In this line of reports, I'm going to cover the fruits of their labors.

The Waimea is a red anthurium which was produced to fill an critical need. Red anthuriums are rather well-liked blooms, but the main type of red anthurium, the Ozaki, was struck by a bacterial blight. The Waimea was produced in reply to this. It is a blight resistant cultivar that provides a great deal of vivid red blossoms.

The Waimea was developed way back in 1987 by crossing Paradise Pink with a Marian Seefurth hybrid. The outcome ended up being a fast growing plant which made half a dozen flowers per year on average. The Waimea anthurium produces medium sized, heart shaped blooms with a red spathe along with a spadix that shifts from orange-red to red-purple. The blossoms that it creates possess a vase life of around 28 days.

The Centennial is a white-colored anthurium which was named for the 100 year anniversary of higher education within the Hawaiian Islands. The Centennial features a lot of symbolic significance for the University of Hawaii. It produces a white colored flower with green veins. Green and white are the colors of the university. The veins merge with each other at the bottom bloom and this signifies the many varied cultures which have coalesced together at the university.

A lot of work went into the breeding of the Centennial. It is a hybrid that was made from four different species of anthurium: A. andraeanum, A. lindenianum, A. amnicola and also A. antioquiense. It creates a white colored tulip shaped blossom with mild obake traits. It has a yellow-green spadix that turns white. It produces dark green foliage and many offshoots. It's great as a cut flower and as a potted plant.