Swiss-cheese Plant

Common Name: Ceriman, Swiss-cheese Plant, Window Plant, Fruit Salad Plant, Split-leaf Philodendron

Scientific Name: Monstera deliciosa

Family: Araceae

Genus: Monstera

General Facts:

• Tropical creeping vine, evergreen liana attains support with aerial roots.
• Can reach up to 20 m to top of canopy.
• Young plants have heart shaped leaves and do not have perforations.
• Older plants will attain the characteristic perforations in the leaves.
• Immature fruit is poisonous, but once ripe is edible, ripening can take up to one year.
  All parts of plant is poisonous, has oxalic acid content, a strong organic acid.
• Fruit looks like corn on cob.
• Apparently can be found near innovation centre.