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Rare aroids. Real care. Built for people who know.

The collector's field guide, care tracker, and marketplace for rare aroids — the rainforest plants like velvet philodendrons, anthuriums, hoyas, monsteras & begonias.

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On-device · No tracking $0.99/mo or $9.99/yr IDs 4,000+ rare aroids

AI Plant ID Point the camera at any leaf — Anthurium crystallinum, 98% match, velvet section, in under a second.

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.
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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

PictureThis

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.

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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Track six care types

Water, fertilize, foliar feed, root check, substrate check and propagation — each with its own schedule and gentle reminders.

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Trade with collectors

Buy, sell and trade rare plants in a collector's marketplace with secure Stripe transactions.

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

88%

Bright indirect

76%

Airy substrate

92%

Air movement

70%

Watering care

64%

Species you can ID

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Care types

Regions

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