Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Philodendron ornatum: easy/difficult? Reclassified?, 1 by ExoticRainforest

ExoticRainforest wrote:
This is the juvenile form of Monstera dubia shot on the greenhouse wall in the main tropical atrium display at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami. About four feet above this group of blades the plant morphed into the adult form and there is no resemblance in the two. If you didn't have a botanist standing beside you to explain natural variation and/or ontogeny you would swear they are two different plants.

In my case, I had several botanists a small group of the members of the International Aroid Society a tour. If I recall correctly, Brian Williams was just feet away and the ID was given by Dr. Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Besides that, there was a tag on the wall.

Steve