Scientific Name: Monstera deliciosa
Common Name: Swiss cheese plant or hurricane plant
Family Name: Araceae
Origin: Central America, Mexico
Hardiness Zone: Zone 11: (above 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 10 - 15m x 4 - 5m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Spreading
Form: Climbing
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Heavily veined, Glabrous, Lustrous, Ovate, Cleft (parted), Entire, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Spadix (& spathe), White, Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug
Fruit: Edible, Multiple fruit, Green, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, ovate, most blades 20-40(-60)cm long x 15-30(-50)cm wide, split as they age resulting in elliptical holes (swiss cheese appearance), margins entire or lobed-pinnatifid; roots can be aerial.