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Oct 24, 2018 1:47 PM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
I think I have finally, after all these years, discovered how to actually grow this plant. I have killed it several times trying to grow it in a pot of soil. But here a cutting fell onto this stone basin and rooted in this moss and is growing as a LITHOPHYTE. So that is how I will grow this now....sometimes a plant has to just hit you over the head
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Oct 24, 2018 2:20 PM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

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That looks like my Satin Pothos (Scindapsus pictus 'Exotica') I've had my plant for ten years and it did really well for a long time and then suddenly almost totally died off (likely due to neglect.) I was able to save a cutting and it's again doing fairly well ... a slow grower but one I really like.
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Oct 24, 2018 5:27 PM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
Lin this one is the larger leaf form. There is also a smaller leaf form that I am currently growing in straight sphagnum and its doing well. I have always loved this plant, I hope I have finally hit on the right way for it to do well for me. I think it rots easily in soil.
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Oct 24, 2018 5:50 PM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

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I love the big leaves and that's a really pretty one!

I used to have all three of the ones in my photo below; 'Exotica' leaves are a little larger than the other two but not as large as some of them get. I wonder if some of them were growing in the ground if their leaves would be like Epipremnum (Pothos), growing larger and larger as the plant matured and climbed? Exotica is still here but I'm not sure about the other two, I'll have to look out on the porches and see if I can find them.
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Oct 24, 2018 7:46 PM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
They DO get bigger as they climb. That is kind of why these fell where they did and rooted onto this stone basin...they were climbing up the wall and then got neglected like everything else. But they had been originally planted in the soil. I think when they are in soil I overwater them. I recognize that silvery philo it looks like either brandiatum or sodoroi
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Oct 24, 2018 7:49 PM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

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Yes, the one on the right in the photo is Philodendron brandtianum
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Oct 25, 2018 5:50 AM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
I am such a notorious misspelled LOL. I have have a piece of that lurking somewhere in the greenhouse I will have to look. I know I did have it at one time. I can't figure out why Scindapsus is nicknamed 'silver pathos'. To me it bears no resemblance in any way to the aroids commonly called 'pathos'. I hate that all these plants get lumped together. 'Pothos' is an Epipremnum that has a variety of cultivars. But its often labeled as a Philodendron. Scindapsus is a totally different Genus from either Epipremnum or Philodendron. I wish growers would stop mislabeling plants
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