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Field Guide · Monstera
The shingler that becomes a different plant entirely — if you give it the right wall to climb.
The reason you're here. Juvenile leaves press flat to bark in a tight overlapping shingle, dark green with silvery variegation along the veins. Given a wide, flat, moisture-holding climbing surface and several feet of vertical run, leaves enlarge dramatically and develop the fenestrations and lobes of a true Monstera. Without that, it shingles politely and never grows up.
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