Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Delicious Monster, apparently, 1 by johnpeten

johnpeten wrote:
My garden covers two acres. Only half an acre was cleared for the house and cultivated garden. Mature trees were left standing in the cleared part and paths were cut in the other part. The vast number of indigenous plants, from my observations, are generally of only one species of a Genus, from self propagation.
Guatemala is a small country but has a full range of climate zones because of it's various elevations.
I have a copy of the Flora of Guatemala produced by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago between 1947 and 1977.
Only 30 Philodendron species and 11 Monstera species have been discovered in Guatemala during the research period. Very few were noted as growing in the Peten, a tropical lowland with the largest rainforest in Central America.
In many cases the differences between species is very slight.
Having said this mouthfull I have one species of Philodendron (photo attached) the Monstera delicosa and the one in question. This one has been photographed from a distance. More detail will be available when a path has been cut through the undergrowth.