Can she say if it has bloomed for her? It MAY be an Anthurium.

Looks like Anthurium, but not 100% certain..Toni

I do hope it is an Anthurium! She said it never bloomed but it grows like crazy and that it will grow in water. She keeps it in the house and out of the sun because our sun is strong and might burn the leaves. She thought it was one plant in a group that her mom bought through the mail, maybe from Hawaii??? but she wasn't sure. The leaves are kind of cupped in the back not slip like most other plants, weird.

Fireant..well, Anthuriums are HI natives, so that's a plus, especially since you hope it is an Anthurium.. :)
Perhaps your friend kept her plant in too dark a location..flowering plants need light to bloom, not blazing sun, but bright.
Once you see new growth, alternate All Purpose fertilizer with a Flowering type..
Whatever, it's very pretty and healthy plant..Toni

Anthuriums are actually native to Central and South America. They've naturalized to some degree in Hawaii, but they are not from there.

My thoughts, in the order I had them:

1) Homalomena? The way the leaves emerge from the center of the plant looks a lot like my H. 'Emerald Gem.'
2) But that's definitely not a Homalomena 'Emerald Gem.'
3) Maybe it's a Philodendron of some kind?
4) Or a Monstera?
5) It can't be a Monstera, because Monsteras would be vining by the time they got that big, not self-heading like this plant is.
6) But the venation looks a lot like a Monstera.
7) The texture of the leaves makes me want to say Anthurium.
8) But there are Philodendrons with that kind of texture too.
9) And it's a little weird for an Anthurium to be grayish like that.

10. I wonder if there's anything good to eat in the kitchen.
11. But maybe the grayish color is just an artifact of the photography.
12. And it's not normal for an Anthurium petiole to connect to the leaf in the center of the leaf, like it appears some of them are doing.
13. Do any Philodendrons have centered petioles like that, as opposed to petioles that attach at the leaf margins?
14. I don't know. Maybe I'm thinking about this too much.
15. And I am hungry.
16. It's probably a Philodendron. But it could be an Anthurium.

Mark, right, 'actually' native but are now grown in HI like weeds.
Maybe it's anthuriumxphilodendron, j/k..

Homolomena, Emerald Gem? Do they grow large? Or as large as Fireant's looks?

Definately not Monstera.

Number 16...lol..

If aroids worked like orchids, Anthurium x Philodendron would be plausible. So would lots of other, pretty awesome things. (I'd love to see what a Caladium x Dieffenbachia would look like, for example.)

Homalomena 'Emerald Gem' could maybe get that wide, but the leaves are wrong: 'Emerald Gem's are a lot shinier, and they're more diamond-shaped than heart-shaped. Possibly some other Homalomena variety, but I couldn't find any that looked like this one using Google.

No, definitely not Monstera.

Pretty funny Mr. Sub,

I like #s 7 & 10, & of course #16. I too thought Philo or Monstera, tho' I've never grown either of those I seem to know what they look like, curious. I too thought the color odd for Anthurium, but the texture right on & the overall look of the plant (to me).

Anyway, looks good whatever it is.

I suppose blooms would tell, Huh.

Caladium x Dieffenbachia would be a beautiful cross. Colors and shapes..I want one..

It's been years since seeing a Homalomena. Although our grocery store sometimes sells a plant that might be a Homa. Next time I see one, if reasonably priced, it's coming home w/me. Do they flower?

Yes, but it's just the normal, boring aroid flower. Similar to that of Alocasia.

Thank you all very much! I apologize for the pictures, the leaves are really a deep dark green. The leaves are what puzzle me. I just can't seem to find another plant like it that has leaves where the stem meets the leaf so far under the leaf. I think I will give it a little fertilizer and more sun, maybe it will flower and the mystery will be solved.

That Mark....he totally cracks me up sometimes!