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Monstera lentii is a climbing aroid from Costa Rica and western Panama, closely related to the popular Swiss cheese plant. It grows best as a warm, humid houseplant with bright indirect light and a moss-pole or other support to climb.
Monstera lentii is a flowering plant in the genus Monstera in the arum family, Araceae.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Monstera lentii 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.
