Monstera adansonii
A lowland vine of hot, wet tropical America, from Nicaragua through northern South America to Brazil and the Lesser Antilles. It is common in secondary forest and forest edges, where it climbs trunks with clasping roots. It wants steady warmth, high humidity and moist but airy roots all year, with no real rest season.
Where it grows wild
Tropical moist and wet forest, most often secondary forest, disturbed primary forest and forest edges with a closed canopy. It starts as a small root-climber on the ground and climbs trunks, pressed flat or free-climbing, as a nomadic vine that can lose its ground connection. Plants in full sun are rare.
A lowland species: sea level to about 975 m in Colombia per the 2024 revision. Wild GBIF records have a median of about 200 m and a maximum near 1180 m.
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