Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Delicious Monster, apparently, 0 by johnpeten

johnpeten wrote:
Now that the area around the tree hosting the plant has been cleared, I look at the plant everyday. I have come to the same conclusion that this is a Philodendron. I have been too occupied to continue the research.
The identification of the Philodendron species, in the past has been a complete muddle. I don't think it has been completely sorted to date. People have been at each others throats concerning the ID of hastatum and domesticum. It has been suggested that the botanist giving the ID for domesticum (home grown) was in fact playing a joke.
Neither of these species appears in the Guatemalan Flora's list of 35 species but this is not a surprise considering the muddle.
The leaf certainly indicates that it could be one of the species that you suggested.
I will find time to go through the Flora and see what I can find.
Thank you for your interest, the can of worms is open again.

As the planting of the cultivated garden is now more or less complete, we have time to explore the wild garden. We should, in theory, find other examples of this Philodendron from which the seeds came.