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Monstera costaricensis is a climbing aroid from wet tropical forests of Nicaragua to Panama, closely related to the popular Swiss cheese plant. It is grown mainly by collectors as a houseplant that needs warm, humid conditions and a moist but airy support to climb.
Monstera costarisensis is a flowering plant in the genus Monstera and family Araceae.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Monstera costaricensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
