I bought this plant labeled as "Monstera sp. unknown" a few years ago. It was a little slip of a cutting maybe 8-10" long. SInce then it has become a climber and is about 10-11 ft from the ground to the terminus. I have posted photos of it before and no one really seems to know what it is. I have had speculations ranging from Epipremnum pinnatum to Monstera obliqua.
I admit it does look like an M. obliqua but on steroids, LOL. The leaves are very large.
I finally got a bloom on it and wondered if that might help someone more expert than little old me ID it?
Monstera?? I have a flower, can you ID?
I'm not up on IDing Monstera, but Brian Williams might be able to ID that one. He has some and has even tried hybridizing them.
LariAnn
Brian if you see this and take a whack...these leaves are large. They are about a foot long
gothqueen,
Another very knowledgeable person you might wish to contact is Steve at http://www.exoticrainforest.com/.
thanks but I don't put much stock in Exoticrainforest. Its very easy to parrot others without any real practical experience
Sorry for being slow for seeing this post. Off hand I would say it is Monstera friedrichallsii. Of course Monsteras are very hard to ID and Tom Croat or Peter Boyce maybe the leading botanist for the group but with out good collection data they seem to have a difficult time telling apart all the different species from the different clones.
That looks very close if not identical to my plant.
I rejected the idea that it was obliqua, which many people have said they think it is, due to the fact that I have been growing obliqua for many years and have a huge plant, but, no matter how old it has gotten or how high it has climbed, the leaves have never obtained the size of this plant, and the stems have never obtained the diameter of the stems on this plant, leading me to believe that while they look similar, this is a different plant.
The holes on M. friedrichstalii are supposed to be evenly distributed.
The holes on M. obliqua are large and irregular.
Is it possible that your new plant is Monstera obliqua, the common type, and your smaller plant is Monstera obliqua 'Expilata'.
