Scindapsus pictus
A root-climbing hemiepiphyte of Southeast Asian rainforest from the lowlands into the hills. Its juvenile silver-spotted leaves press flat against tree trunks and overlap like shingles. It suits a warm, evenly humid, shaded home with something to climb, and it forgives average room humidity better than most aroids.
Where it grows wild
It climbs trees and occasionally rocks in primary rainforest, rooting into bark with clinging roots. Juveniles shingle flat against the trunks in the shaded understory. Adult plants climb higher, reach roughly 3 m, and carry larger leaves.
Philippine records span 60–1676 m, and other accounts give sea level to about 1800 m.
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