Philodendron tripartitum
A vigorous climbing Philodendron whose adult leaves are split into three separate leaflets. It is a hemiepiphyte of wet lowland and foothill forest from southern Mexico through Central America to northern South America and Jamaica. Growers describe it as aggressive in cultivation, so give it warmth, humidity and a tall support.
Where it grows wild
Grows in wet tropical forest. It starts on the ground or low on a trunk and climbs host trees with clinging roots, as hemiepiphytic philodendrons do. Its leaves sit in broken shade to dappled light along trunks and forest edges.
Wikipedia gives 0–1,300 m. The 193 GBIF records with elevations have a median of 400 m, and a few reach about 2,200 m.
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