Variegated Monstera...

[Sean]

I ordered this last year and it has grown quite well indoors. I have plans to propagate it but do not have the heart to chop off the growth it has attained from the last year. It is quite spindly in the middle from the dark winter months but new growth is beginning to split again and leaves are getting larger. I may just start myself a new plant from the end and cut up the rest as propagating starts.
It's a beautiful plant, each leaf has varying amounts of white variegation.

Cheers,
Sean

[Kittyzee]

Is that a philodendron?  It's beautiful.  I've never seen one varigated that heavily with white before.  I think pinching long growth helps it bush out, then you could take those and make new starts.

[Sean]

Hi LuAnn,

These are in the same family as Philodendrons and sometimes called "Split-Leaf Philodendron" but they get so much larger.
When these get the conditions that they like they will look like this...  PS, this is not my photo, credit goes to Strange Wonderful Things.



Cheers,
Sean

[Indiana Karen]

Beautiful.......they remind me of antlers.

[greenthumbnails]

Interesting plant. It looks as if someone has splashed paint on it, haha. I guess the adaptation to lose its surface area is so that it retains moisture or something like that? 

[Jerry]

Never saw that gem, Spectacular.
My plant friend that moved to hawaii has a varigated Bird of Paradise!  I never knew the existed.  He spotted it at Wal Mart!  he said it's one in a million.  Of course  the Wal Mart clerks had no clue what it was.
Here is mine