Philodendron wendlandii
A self-heading, rosette-forming philodendron from the wet Caribbean-slope forests of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and north-western Colombia. It usually grows as an epiphyte high in the canopy, with a short stem, a rosette of thick oblong-oblanceolate leaves and orange berries. That means it likes brighter light and freer drainage than most climbing philodendrons.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte, often high in the forest canopy and occasionally terrestrial, in tropical wet forest and premontane rain forest. It has a short stem with leaves in a rosette, erect inflorescences and bright orange berries. Canopy branches drain fast but are rained on almost daily.
Measured records span 20 to 1950 m with a median of 200 m, so mostly lowland to lower premontane; a Colombian flora account gives 415 to 600 m.
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