Tropicals & Tender Perennials: No rambling roses here, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
And when the Pothos is up high it drops down long runners which on reaching the ground take off looking for other trees to take over.

The taller the plant the larger the leaves. So you only get a close up view of big leaves when they eventually fall. This one is 73 centimetres along the mid rib.

This side of the palm trunk is Amydrium zippelanum. When the plant is on ground level it sends out thin runners which sprout a few leaves along the way, probably to provide an extra bit of nourishment for the runners. When they find a suitable tree they go up and then establish a mature plant. Seems an adaptation to a plant falling with a dead tree then having to find a new tree to grow on.

A Syngonium taking over a small termite mound. They're not particular, they'll climb on anything. One of my water tanks has Syngonium all over the sides.