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Monstera deliciosa

Botanic Family

Araceae

Author

Liebmann

Common Names

• Monstera
• Ceriman
• Swiss Cheese Plant
• Mexican Bread Fruit
• Delicious Monster
• Fruit Salad Plant
• Breadfruit Vine
• Hurricane Plant
• Window Plant
• Split-leaf Philodendron
• Cut-leaf Philodendron
• Mano de Leon
• Balazos (Bulletholes)
• Cotilla de Adán (Costa Rica)
• Piñanona
• Mano de Tigre
• Costilla de Adán (Ecuador)

Geographical Habitats

• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Chiapas
• Oaxaca
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forest

Flowering Times

• Spring to Summer Mar

Fruiting Times

Evergreen creeping or climbing vine with aerial roots, creamy-white or bluish-green outside, white inside flower spathes to 350mm, cream spadix 250mm & scented dull green to cream fruits to 250mm long, epiphytic climber, leaves 900mm long x 750mm with oval perforations

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Johns 1979
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• Zuchowski
• Bodkin
• Exotica
• Bown
• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• Mendoza