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Monstera
Monstera
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Decades
Size
Large
Diet
Photosynthetic
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Solitary
Biome
Tropical rainforest
Range
Tropical Americas
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxin
Status
Common

About

Monstera is a genus of tropical American climbing plants in the arum family, prized as houseplants for their large, glossy leaves that develop dramatic holes and splits (fenestrations) as they mature. In the wild they scramble up trees by clinging aerial roots.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Monstera