Monstera deliciosa seed

LATIN NAME: Monstera deliciosa

COMMON NAME: Swiss Cheese Plant

The Swiss cheese plant is a handsome, vigorous, evergreen, climbing plant of the warm forests, and its fine, large, glossy, heart-shaped, deeply cut and holed leaves and its fine, thick, creamy-white, spadix-like flower head with the showy, white, boat-shaped bract, followed by the large, green, scaly, banana-like fruit, have made it a treasured and fine plant of the warm room. It grows as a vigorous, evergreen, climbing plant, reaching up to twenty metres or more over the trees, with the long, rooting stems bearing the alternate, large, glossy, heart-shaped, deeply cut and holed leaves and, through the warm months, the fine, thick, creamy-white, spadix-like flower head with the showy, white, boat-shaped bract, followed by the large, green, scaly, banana-like fruit of the many hard seeds. It is a species of the flowering plant in the arum family, and it is native to the warm forests of the central America, while it is treasured for its fine, bold, glossy, cut leaves, and it is known as the Swiss cheese plant.

In the arum family it is the great, cut-leaved climber of the warm forests, a plant whose holed, glossy leaves and creamy flower heads have made it the best-loved room climber of the world.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Swiss cheese plant appears in the climber papers of the central American forests, and the botanists have studied the fine, bold, deeply cut and holed leaves and their clever way of letting the dappled forest light through to the leaf below. The botanists have also mapped its place in the arum family and the regional flora, and the food scientists have looked at the scaly, banana-like fruit with its history of use in the warm regions. It is a plant of the bold-leaf, easy-room kind, and the growers of the room plants keep it in the front rank.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm room and the conservatory, the Swiss cheese plant is the bold-leaved climber of the shaded corner. Its creamy flower head feeds the insects, its scaly fruit feeds the forest creatures, and the large, glossy leaves give the room a fine, lush presence. It has been treasured across the world as one of the great room plants, and it grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained pot soil of the warm, bright, sheltered spot. Bold-leaved, glossy and easy.

Press the hard seeds out of the ripe fruit and sow them fresh at a shallow depth in pots of rich, moist, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a warm, bright, sheltered spot and never let them dry out, and the first shoots will push through before long.