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Field Guide · Monstera
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Produced from a stable tissue-culture mutation developed in Thailand, 'Thai Constellation' throws creamy yellow-to-white sectoral and speckled variegation distributed across the leaf rather than concentrated on one side. Because the variegation is encoded at the cellular level rather than maintained by a chimeric sector, it doesn't revert — every leaf comes out patterned. Growth is slower than a standard deliciosa, but the trade-off is consistency: you're not gambling on whether the next push will be all-green. In a mature specimen the fenestrations read through both green and cream tissue simultaneously, which no other cultivar replicates.
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