Identify & learn

Identify any aroid across five genera — thousands of species.

Point the camera at any Philodendron, Anthurium, Monstera, Hoya or Begonia — catalogued or not — and Leaf People names it. Plus a deep, expert care library for the rarest, growing all the time.

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Philodendronany species

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Anthuriumany species

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Monsteraany species

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Begoniaany species

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Hoyaany species

The old way

Identifying a rare aroid meant three forums and a guess. Now it's one photo.

Without Leaf People

Scroll mislabeled seller listings
Cross-check three Facebook groups
Generic apps say "it's an Anthurium"
No care specifics for your climate
Notes scattered across screenshots

Hours of guessing

With Leaf People

Snap a photo — genus-aware ID
Curated profiles for rare species
Six care schedules with reminders
Regional guidance for 10 areas
Fresh field notes & guides, daily
Your whole collection in one place

One tap. On your device.

New · AI Plant ID

Point. Shoot. Know your aroid.

Most plant apps guess across every plant on earth — and still call your velvet Anthurium a "Laceleaf." Leaf People is the specialist: point it at any Philodendron, Anthurium, Monstera, Hoya or Begonia — thousands of species, catalogued or not — and it names the plant, not just the genus. The rarest come with a full in-depth care guide.

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Specialist, not generalist. Tuned for Philodendron, Anthurium, Monstera, Begonia & Hoya.
Add detail shots. Leaf back & petiole photos sharpen tricky look-alikes.
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Straight to the profile. Matches open the full care guide; new finds save as a custom plant.

The test

We ran our rarest aroids through every major plant identifier. None of them came close.

Same plants, same afternoon. Leaf People named the species — and the cultivar. The others stopped at the genus, hedged, or guessed a different plant entirely.

Leaf People

Species & cultivar

10 / 10 named to species or cultivar, 82–99% — even a single leaf and a dried one.

★ The collector's tool

Google Lens

Genus, then a guess

Always "an Anthurium," then a hedged list — "balaoanum or esmeraldense," "NOID hybrid."

Poor

Apple Visual Look Up

Mostly just "Laceleaf"

Named only the two most famous — the king and queen — and fell back to the genus's common name for every rarer one.

Genus only, bar the famous

PictureThis

Wrong plant entirely

Called one rare anthurium a fern, the queen a caladium, and defaulted the rest to "Flamingo-lily" — the grocery-store anthurium.

Worst

✓ Leaf People nailed every one

Leaf People identifying Anthurium warocqueanum at 99%

A. warocqueanum · 99%

Leaf People identifying Anthurium papillilaminum from a dried leaf at 99%

A. papillilaminum · 99% · dried leaf

Leaf People identifying Anthurium Ace of Spades at 99%

'Ace of Spades' · 99%

Leaf People identifying Anthurium crystallinum from a single leaf at 82%

A. crystallinum · 82% · single leaf

Here's what everyone else said — on the same plants

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Anthurium cutucuense → "Cretan brake"

It called a rare cloud-forest Anthurium cutucuense a common fern (Pteris cretica) — wrong genus, wrong family, wrong everything. Leaf People nailed it: cutucuense, 98%.

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Queen anthurium → "Angel wings"

The prized Anthurium warocqueanum — worth thousands — came back as Caladium lindenii, a different genus entirely. Leaf People: warocqueanum, 99%.

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Everything else → "Flamingo-lily"

Ace of Spades, Carla Blackie, even Anthurium cupulispathum — all came back as A. andraeanum, the $15 grocery-store flamingo flower. It knows one anthurium, and that's it.

Google Lens

"An Anthurium hybrid… NOID"

Genus-right, but it punts on species — offering a list of maybes and a "no-ID" hybrid label instead of an answer.

The plant	Leaf People	Google Lens	Apple	PictureThis
A. warocqueanumqueen	Species · 99%	Species (likely)	"Queen Anthurium"	"Angel wings" (a Caladium)
A. papillilaminumdried leaf	Species · 99%	Species (hedged)	"Laceleaf"	"Flamingo-lily"
Anthurium 'Ace of Spades'cultivar	Cultivar · 99%	Genus only	"Laceleaf"	"Flamingo-lily"
A. veitchiiking	Species · 99%	Species (likely)	"King Anthurium"	"Flamingo-lily"
Anthurium 'Carla Blackie'cultivar	Cultivar · 99%	Genus (hedged)	"Laceleaf"	"Flamingo-lily"
A. cutucuense	Species · 98%	Species ✓	"Laceleaf"	"Cretan brake" (a fern)
A. crystallinumsingle leaf	Species · 82%	Genus only	"Laceleaf"	"Flamingo-lily"

Tested May 2026 — Leaf People (on-device), Google Lens AI Mode, Apple Visual Look Up (iOS Photos), and PictureThis, the same photographs run through each. "Laceleaf" and "Flamingo-lily" are common names for the broad Anthurium genus — over 1,000 species — whereas "Queen Anthurium" and "King Anthurium" are species-specific common names (warocqueanum and veitchii): Apple correctly named those two famous plants but returned only the genus, "Laceleaf", for the rarer ones. Google Lens reached species on the well-documented plants (cutucuense, and likely the famous queen) but hedged or stalled at the genus on the rarer species, cultivars and leaf-only shots; PictureThis named the correct species zero times. Leaf People identifies within the genera we cover and tells you when a plant isn't one of ours.

Point a generic app at an Ace of Spades, a kunyalense or a dressleri and you'll get a shrug — "Philodendron sp." And naming it is only the start: open the profile and you get clone lines, care specifics, and the details that matter when you're collecting at this level. If you grow rare anthuriums, this is the one app worth having.

Once it's yours

You hunted it down. You paid for it. Don't lose it.

Nobody likes to lose a plant — especially a rare one you waited months and real money to find. And grails die from a missed week, not bad luck.

That's what Keep It Alive is for. Tap any plant in your collection and Leaf People builds a step-by-step care plan tuned to your exact climate and your setup — soil, LECA or Pon — with start dates and reminders for watering, feeding, foliar, and root & substrate checks. Not generic advice: specific instructions for your plant, where you grow it, so a $500 anthurium never dries out or rots on your watch.

How it works

Explore. Track. Trade. Learn.

Everything a collector needs — and nothing leaves your phone.

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Explore rare species

Curated profiles for velvet philodendrons, rare anthuriums and more — light, humidity, substrate, air movement and watering, at a glance.

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Keep It Alive — a care plan per plant

Rare plants die from bad timing, not bad luck. Tap a plant for a step-by-step plan tuned to your climate and your setup (soil, LECA or Pon): watering, fertilizing, foliar feeding, root & substrate checks and propagation — each on its own schedule, with reminders so a hard-won anthurium never dries out or rots.

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Trade with collectors

Buy, sell and trade rare plants in a collector's marketplace built around vetted, trusted growers — with secure Stripe transactions.

We hand-pick and feature trusted growers — reputable sellers we'd buy from ourselves — so collectors always know exactly who they're sourcing from. Are you a grower who belongs here? Reach out and tell us about your plants.

New · Daily stories

A new aroid story every day.

Field notes, deep-dive field guides, and rare-plant culture — published daily and delivered right inside the app.

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A feed, fresh every day

The same field notes and field guides you'll find on leafpeople.app — pulled into a clean, native in-app reader.

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Notified the moment it drops

Opt-in push notifications ping you when a new story publishes — tap straight into the reader.

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Get sharper with every plant

Culture, propagation, and care deep-dives that make you a better grower over time.

Care that adapts

Tuned to where you grow.

Every profile breaks a plant's needs into the conditions that actually matter — and adjusts guidance across 10 supported regions.

Humidity

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Bright indirect

76%

Airy substrate

92%

Air movement

70%

Watering care

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Species you can ID

Genera

Care types

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Identify it. Care for it. Collect it. The complete app for rare rainforest plants.

Identify any aroid across five genera — thousands of species.

Identifying a rare aroid meant three forums and a guess. Now it's one photo.

Without Leaf People

With Leaf People

Point. Shoot. Know your aroid.

We ran our rarest aroids through every major plant identifier. None of them came close.

You hunted it down. You paid for it. Don't lose it.

Explore. Track. Trade. Learn.

Explore rare species

Keep It Alive — a care plan per plant

Trade with collectors

A new aroid story every day.

A feed, fresh every day

Notified the moment it drops

Get sharper with every plant

Tuned to where you grow.

Start your collection.