Monstera tuberculata
Giant monstera
Family AraceaeAlso called Giant velvet-leaf monstera
About
A lowland Monstera of Mexico and Central America whose adult leaves lack holes and whose fruit hangs like a pendant.
Field notes
Morphology
Young plants shingle closely against tree trunks. Mature plants carry short-stalked oval leaves without fenestrations. Unusually for an aroid, the fruit hangs downward.
Distribution & habitat
Native to Mexico (including Veracruz), Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, in lowland wet tropical forest up to 200 m.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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