Philodendron brandtianum
Philodendron brandtianum is a lowland South American aroid that climbs flat against tree trunks, best known for the heavy silver patterning on its juvenile heart-shaped leaves. In the wild it climbs roughly 10 m before the stems turn pendant and adult, plain green leaves appear; indoors it almost always stays in the juvenile, silver form. It comes from seasonally dry forest, so it wants a lighter hand with water in the cool months than most rainforest philodendrons.
Where it grows wild
A hemiepiphytic climber that hugs its host tree closely, rooting into bark as it goes; it may start on the ground and climb, and occasionally persists terrestrially. Sources describe it from seasonally dry areas of western and southern Amazonia rather than permanently wet forest.
No elevation data was found in the sources opened; the range points to lowland to low-foothill Amazonian forest.
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