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Monstera croatii is a Costa Rican climber in the Araceae that, unlike most monsteras, can grow fully terrestrial rather than needing to climb to mature. It suits warm, humid, bright-indirect conditions and is grown mainly by collectors.
Monstera croatii is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to Costa Rica at altitudes of 300–600 meters (980–1,970 ft). It is unique within the genus for being a primarily terrestrial grower, able to reach adult size without an epiphytic growth habit, whereas other monstera will remain in a creeping juvenile state until finding a suitable media for climbing and maturing. It will typically climb up to one meter (3.3 feet) before flowering. Adult plants have smooth, blue-tinged green petioles up to 45 centimetres (18 in) long, with oblong, deeply pinnatifid leaf blades up to 45 centimetres (18 in) long and 33 centimetres (13 in) wide. Adult specimens do not form fenestrations. Its spathe is up to 14 centimetres (5.5 in) long, externally white-yellow at anthesis, with a white spadix 8 centimetres (3.1 in) long.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Monstera croatii 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.
