Little Anthura in Cibeber

Little Anthura in Cibeber. The name Kanamon might not sound familiar. It is the name of a village in Cibeber Subdistrict, about 20 km away from the capital of Cianjur Regency. In this village, PT Ekakarya Graha Flora built 12 shading houses measuring 0,5 ha on the altitude of 600—700 m asl to grow flaminggo flowers of which seeds are bought from Anthura, Neth erlands, the paradise of flaminggo flowers.

The atmsophere in the shading houses is indeed like the atmosphere in Anthura. Each shading house looks very much like a house of rainbow as there are thousands of spathe in rainbow colors cropping up among green foliage. For example the red pico bello; pink baleno; and green pistache.

In total there are 46 varieties of flaminggo flower grown there. Twenty out of the total varieties are grown as pot plants, while the rest are grown as cut flowers. Cucu Wijaya of the planning program & product inventory control said that the number of varieties grown there may be increase in 1—2 years to come. The reason is that there are still a large number of flaminggo flower new varieties that have not been released in Anthura as they are still in selection stage. (Rosy Nur Apriyanti)