Philodendron ichthyoderma
A large climbing philodendron from the very wet Chocó and Darién forests of Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. It is named for its scaly, fish-skin-like cracked stems and petioles. It is a warm lowland plant that needs constant warmth, high humidity, shade and something to climb.
Where it grows wild
A large vine or hemiepiphyte in evergreen and semi-deciduous forest, including very wet forest with around 4400 mm of rain a year. It often grows along creeks and at the edges of secondary forest. Specimen labels also record plants rooted in the ground with stems to 1.5 m before they climb.
Mostly below 800 m. GBIF records range from sea level to about 1070 m (median about 480 m), with a few from cloud forest on the continental divide at El Copé, Panama.
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