Anthurium Crystallinum monstera combining novelty with the resilience

combining novelty with the resilience of its parent species

and botanical explorer whose Rio de Janeiro estate became one of the most significant private plant collections in South America

it grows terrestrially on shaded rocky forest floors at lower elevations

The bright red cataphylls that accompany each new unfurling add a further flash of color

As the plant matures it develops the characteristic fenestrations and splits of the species on a climbing support

Anthurium Crystallinum monstera combining novelty with the resilienceAnthurium Crystallinum One of the foundational velvet anthuriums, native to the humid montane forests of Panama, Colombia, and Peru, where it grows as a terrestrial to hemiepiphytic understory plant. Prized for its broadly heart shaped, deeply velvety dark green leaves with a network of brilliant white to silver venation that reads as almost crystalline against the matte surface. New leaves emerge in a vivid pink to reddish bronze flush before