Species · genus Monstera · Araceae

Window-Leaf Monstera

Monstera obliqua Miq.

Growth habit

climber

Native range

Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela

Reference · M. obliqua

Cultivars of M. obliqua

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under M. obliqua yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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A delicate climbing aroid from the humid lowland and understory forests of Central and South America, where it scrambles up trunks in dappled shade. Give it bright indirect light and a coarse, fast-draining mix, and water when the top inch is approaching dry — its thin leaves resent both drought and sitting wet. It genuinely wants high humidity and steady airflow to do well indoors.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 10 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

18–28 °C

Soil mix

Light, moisture-retentive sphagnum-rich aroid mix

Propagation

Stem cuttings or runners with a node

Fertilizing

Dilute balanced feed monthly while actively growing

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs & humans

Araceae contain insoluble calcium oxalate crystals, which irritate mouth and digestive tract if chewed. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (family inference)

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