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Field Guide · Philodendron
Four creeping velvet philodendrons, four ways to tell them apart before you spend rare-plant money on a mislabeled cutting.
The benchmark. Heart-shaped, matte velvet blades with crisp white or pale pink primary veins and a fine pink margin on fresh leaves. Petiole is round in cross-section, slightly grooved on top, and usually shorter than the leaf is long. Native to Colombia; stays a true terrestrial crawler with a thick, horizontal rhizome.
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