| 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. | |