Philodendron pastazanum
A ground-creeping philodendron from the Amazonian foothills of eastern Ecuador and Peru, with large glossy, heart-shaped to slightly peltate leaves held on long, firm petioles. It crawls along stream valleys, cliff bases and wet, disturbed forest and road edges rather than climbing, so it wants a wide shallow container, steady warmth and constant moisture more than a pole.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial creeper: the stems run along the ground for 1 to 1.5 m with short, thick internodes, and the leaves stand up on petioles longer than the blades. It grows in valleys and on cliffs along streams and in wet parts of disturbed rainforest, and is common along roadsides where it occurs. That means humid, often partly opened ground with good drainage from slopes.
Described as a plant of low and middle elevations in the Amazon drainage. The measured records span 416 to 1335 m with a median of 825 m, i.e. the foothill zone below the Andes.
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