Species · genus Rhaphidophora · Araceae

Creeping Philodendron

Rhaphidophora decursiva (Roxb.) Schott

Also known as: Dragon Tail Plant

Growth habit

climber

Native range

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya

Reference · R. decursiva

Cultivars of R. decursiva

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

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

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

A tropical climbing aroid from the humid forests of South and Southeast Asia, it scrambles up trees and wants something to climb, with bright indirect light rather than direct sun. As a root-climber it drains fast and dislikes sitting wet, so water only when the top inch or two of mix has dried, and provide warmth and steady humidity.

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 7-12d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 12 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

18–29 °C

Soil mix

Chunky, well-draining aroid mix

Propagation

Stem cuttings rooted at a node

Fertilizing

Balanced liquid feed monthly in the growing season

Growth rate

Fast

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs & humans

Araceae typically contain insoluble calcium oxalate crystals that irritate mouth and digestive tract 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 7-12d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (family inference)

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