Monstera deliciosa - dwarf, giant or otherwise "developmentally

From: "Jay Vannini" interbnk at infovia.com.gt> on 2000.06.10 at 03:34:05(4700) Julius - Good to see that you are back from Guyana Francais. Your observations on variations in M. deliciosa were interesting. Although the "classic" version is grown in gardens everywhere here, come to think of it, all of the wild plants I have observed in the western Guatemalan highlands WERE somewhat different from that wildly fenstrated/lacinate (?) thing that we all grew up with. While the leaves of indigenous plants get pretty big and do "shot-hole" modestly, they look much more like the first illustration in Birdsey's "The Cultivated Aroids" and identified there as 'cultigen Dwarf Ceriman" than the Oaxacan plants. Question - I have a plant of the M. deliciosa 'albo-variegata' form that appears to be heading towards giant, fenestrated splendor. Are all the plants that you see in the trade propagations from a single clone, are is this variegation fairly common in the population? Presumably this very 'coqueto' form originated in southern Mexico? 'dios - Jay

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