Friday, 25 March 2011

Monstera Deliciosa



Monstera deliciosa is a creeping vine native to tropical rainforests of southern Mexico south to Panama.
Common names include Ceriman, Swiss Cheese Plant (or just Cheese Plant), Fruit Salad Plant,Monster fruit, Monsterio Delicio, Monstereo, Mexican Breadfruit, Monstera, split-leaf philodendron,Locust and Wild Honey, Windowleaf and Delicious Monster.
This member of the Arum family is an epiphyte with aerial roots, able to grow up to 20 m high with large, leathery, glossy, heart-shaped leaves 25–90 cm long by 25–75 cm broad. Young plants have leaves that are smaller and entire with no lobes or holes, but soon produce lobed and holed leaves.
Wild seedlings grow towards the darkest area they can find until they find a tree trunk, then start to grow up towards the light, creeping up the tree.
Details on source: Wikipedia
  

Epipremnum Aureum (Marble Money Plant)




Epipremnum aureum, also known as the Pothos (once classified under the genus Pothos),Silver Vine, Centipede tongavine, Devil's Ivy and Solomon Islands' Ivy, is an aroid native to southeastern Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia) and New Guinea. It is sometimes mistakenly labeled as aPhilodendron in plant stores.
It is an epiphyte growing to 20 m tall, with stems up to 4 cm diameter, climbing by means of aerial roots which hook over tree branches. The leaves are evergreen, alternate, heart-shaped, entire on juvenile plants, but irregularly pinnatifid on mature plants, up to 100 cm long and 45 cm broad (juvenile leaves much smaller, typically under 20 cm long). The flowers are produced in a spathe up to 23 cm long. This plant produces trailing stems when it climbs up trees and these take root when they reach the ground and grow along it. The leaves on these trailing stems grow up to 10cm long and are the ones normally seen on this plant when it is cultivated as a pot plant.
Source: Wikipedia 

Pilea Peperomioides (Money Plant)


Pilea peperomioides, known as Chinese Money Plant, Lefse Plant, or Missionary Plant is a plant native to the Yunnan province in the south of China. Parasolpilea is characterised by having very round, dark green leafs with a 10cm diameter mounted in the middle on a longstem.
Peperomioides was first collected by George Forrest in 1906, and in 1910, in the mountain range Cang Shan west of Dali in the Yunnan province.
In 1945 the species was rediscovered by Norwegian missionary Agnar Espegren in the Yunnan province when he was fleeing from the Hunan province. Espegren took some cuttings with him back to Norway, by India in 1946, and from there it spread throughout Scandinavia.
Source: Wikipedia