Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: Pothos on steroids., 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
keonikale,

That's been my point all along about size getting huge as it grows vertically.

Why that happens is anyone's guess. It's one of the great mysteries of life. Kinda like the last brood of monarch butterflies (5th or 6th generation in a season from what I heard) that can migrate back to the same place in Mexico for winter. It's almost like a map of where they need to go is passed along to each generation in the genes.

Anyway, it just isn't pothos that gets bigger growing vertically either. Lots of philodendrons do the same thing but not as noticeable as pothos. Here is a picture from Thailand of some philos growing up a banyan tree. The best example I saw was down in Key West of a philodendron deliciosa growing in a tree next to a tree full of pothos. Both had huge leaves at the top of the trees.