Philodendron simmondsii
A rare climbing Philodendron endemic to Trinidad, known from only a handful of stations in wet tropical forest and assessed as Endangered. Very little has been published about its ecology beyond that, so care is best built from the warm, wet, year-round lowland-to-hill forest climate of Trinidad's Northern Range and from what works for other climbing Philodendron.
Where it grows wild
Wet tropical forest in Trinidad, where it grows as a climber, rooting into the ground and ascending tree trunks. Published detail on its microhabitat is thin; like other climbing Philodendron it probably starts in shade on the forest floor and climbs into brighter, dappled light.
No wild records with elevations were available. The measured climate comes from one representative point at about 300 m in Trinidad's forested Northern Range, which is the kind of wet forest it is reported from.
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