Philodendron verrucosum
COMMON NAME | Ecuador Philodendron |
TYPE | Vine |
FAMILY | Araceae |
NOTES | Philodendron
verrucosum is a colorful Philodendron with velvety leaves coupled with
beautiful hairy petioles. It is a hemiepiphyte that starts its life as a seed
growing in the canopy of trees and is eventually reaching the soil with its
roots. A hemiepiphyte is a plant that grows at least for a part of its
lifecycle as an epiphyte. |
GEOGRAPHIC REGION | Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru |
NATIVE
HABITAT | Pre-mountainous
rain forest regions |
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