#philodendron

Stopped in the palm house on a run with a friend the other day. It’s an absolute oasis.

It was plant moving day, and I’m pleased with how it turned out.

I’ll be posting more pics of the individual plants, but everyone looks so pretty and happy

i started a prop box !! im so excited to watch them root and grow !!

brasil philodendron, lemon lime philodendron, manjula pothos, golden pothos, monstera adansonii, rhaphidophora tetrasperma, albo syngonium, pilea glauca, peperomia hope, african violet, variegated african violet

tryna take over my kitchen and such…it makes a witch proud.

Happy First Foliage Friday of 2021

Ophelia Birkinstock is being weird. I’m thinking she could be reverting? Looks cool though.

Roots on my PPP cutting!

The Newbie

I’ve actually slowed down my plant shopping considerably, and I think this is still my most recent plant purchase. Still haven’t given it a personal name. Suggestions are encouraged!

Wfh today and the leaves of my P. micans look like they contain glitter

Newest Philodendron gloriosum leaf The lovely white veins show much potential for what she can grow into, don’t you think?

Loving the new leaf on my pasta!

My pride and joy This is one of the very few plants that had never made me worry/troubled/confused since day 1.

Swipe for pics from 40 days (pic 3) and 7 months (pic 4) ago!

You can see the difference in the sizes of the newer leaves and original leaves in the pic from 40 days ago

When you grow succulents for years then u take a step into the foliage kingdom and they just struggle under your care

Well, at least my baby pink princess who came with her mum is putting out her first pinky leaf

Meanwhile her mum and others are not great well, it’s all part of learning I guess. Learning and experimenting.

ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴅᴀʏ ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ ᴅᴀʏ

Vengeful indoor gardening (commission)

–

If you’d like to commission me, email me at maixiemm (at) gmail (dot) com !!

The color in Philodendron bipennifolium is absolutely gorgeous. This teal green highly reflexive is so charming, thanks nature winter is over down here in Brazil and we can have full growth again. Just waiting for the rains, even if la niña promisses lower rainfall this end of year.

The caladium bicolor under it just popped there and serves well to compare the color of the leaves. I’ll repot it as soon as the rains start around here. Also I’m feeling like filling this pot soil with more organic matter and do some magnesium fertilization.

Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum young leaves, native around here. It is said that indigenous people used to eat the fruits just like monstera deliciosa. But may take a while to see that one flowering. Specially because it turns to be a huge, massive plant when adult and I’m not sure I can afford that kind of space, but we’ll manage.

Mine still young but as one can see the “trunk” like structure is arealdy forming, a very specific characteristic of the genus. No other philodendron can produce a structure like this, only those species of thaumatophyllum that developed and divided from other philodendron in an early evolution stage.

Now I’ll be waiting for it to develop more leaves and become larger. Later those plants start to look like huge snakes with the winding trunk of theirs as they lose the older leaves and just keep the crown ones like a palmtree of sorts.

Philodendron mayoi was my first foliage, the plant that started it all around a year ago (with foliage at least). It’s from central Brazil, growing on the tropical savannah’s tree shade and near course of water. Those pinnated leaves are way rounder than similar species like P. radiatum, P. elegans and others. But the best part of it is that I didn’t buy it or was gifted. It just popped on the yard from seed and I managed to take a cutting.

Now I should get some tutor for it ASAP because surely I want to see it develop more leaves and perhaps reach something around 2 meters high, what you guys think? It stays outside in my pergola area receiving a filtered bright light specially at noon.

Philodendron acutatum is a common yet beautiful foliage from brazilian rainforests. Usually found in the Atlantic Forest, but also the Amazon. Has a red border and leaves can grow in many sagitated shapes. It’s a hemiepiphyte herb that once it climbs can produce several aerial roots which were traditionally used by local indigenous people as source of several crafts like baskets and others.

This leaf is quite small yet, but an adult plant can reach something around 20 inches or more. The leaves are sparse right now as this one was clustered with other four ones and I moved it to climb a wood pallet that is in the background there. Watering the pallet will increase the chances of the roots adhering over it.

I’ll bring more posts about individual tropical plant species and talk about them. What do you guys think about it?

Philodendron beauty

Philodendron “Burle Marx” is truly weird… Not the best climber out there and nobody saw it’s inflorescence as it seems. So it’s not known if it is a hybrid or a true species. I juts made this cutting and left it to climb a wall, let’s see how far it can go, and if in good humidity I can make it climb.

Just got back from the dead, hello again!

Got my app down because had to reset my phone and I’ve been procrastinating this come back for a while. But now here I am, ready to share a lot of the findings, my yard and stuff.

Different philo brasils in my collection. I got the guy on the right from someone on Craigslist - he actually came with a Hoya carnosa krimson princess cutting in the pot and was listed as a Golden pothos ‍♂️

Link to a video of his trails on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx2rgKLAx–/?igshid=1lqneyo03x0b7

Here’s the Hoya cutting now, potted up with my other krimson princess:

And HERE is a pic of when I first picked up the plant: if you zoom in and look closely you’ll see some of the variegated leaves in the front are most definitely philodendron brasil

Clearly I had no idea what I was doing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but look how far we’ve come in 2.5 years!