Aglaonema modestum
The classic plain green Chinese evergreen, a forest-floor aroid from southern China and mainland Southeast Asia. It grows in shaded evergreen and seasonal forest, often on limestone hills, where the monsoon brings a wet summer and a cooler, drier winter. It is one of the most shade-tolerant houseplants and is easy if kept warm and not waterlogged.
Where it grows wild
It grows in the shaded understory of primary evergreen and seasonal forest. A Lao specimen was from 'shaded, primary, evergreen, seasonal, hardwood forest' on shale, and Vietnamese records include Cúc Phương National Park, a limestone forest. Wikipedia also mentions swampy rainforest.
Recorded at 51-1250 m, median 202 m, from only 13 records carrying an elevation. It is mainly a lowland and foothill plant.
🔒 Growing it like that
The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:
Grow Aglaonema modestum? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.
More Aglaonema
Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.