Plant Encyclopedia
Care cards, common problems, and fun facts for the plants collectors actually buy. Updated as the library grows.
A compact alocasia hybrid with arrow-shaped, almost black leaves and bright silver-white veining. Dramatic, sculptural, and famously dramatic about drafts.
Heart-shaped, deep emerald leaves stamped with bright white veins — a velvety, almost embossed look that no other aroid quite matches. Native to Chiapas, Mexico.
The most forgiving trailing houseplant in the world. Native to the Solomon Islands, naturalized across the tropics, and famously hard to kill — a Pothos cutting in a glass of water will outlive most relationships.
Often called the 'cheese plant for small spaces.' A vining aroid with smaller, fully-enclosed fenestrated leaves — the holes form within the leaf rather than splitting from the edge like a deliciosa.
The crown jewel of variegated aroids. A chimeric mutation of Monstera deliciosa that produces dramatic white sectors — every leaf is one-of-a-kind and unstable, which is exactly why collectors chase it.
The icon of modern houseplant collecting. A vigorous tropical aroid native to southern Mexico and Central America, prized for the dramatic fenestrations (splits and holes) that develop as it matures.
A stable mutation of Philodendron 'Rojo Congo' that arose in cultivation in the late 2010s. Striking pinstripe variegation on each leaf and a tidy upright habit — one of the easiest 'collector-looking' plants to keep alive.
A creeping, terrestrial philodendron with massive velvety heart-shaped leaves and pink-edged petioles. Unlike its climbing cousins, gloriosum crawls across the soil surface — making it as much a statement piece as a plant.
The aroid that made variegated philodendrons a household obsession. Deep burgundy leaves splashed with bubblegum-pink sectors that can vary from a freckle to a perfect half-moon.
Architectural, drought-proof, and almost impossible to kill except by overwatering. West African native, now the apartment plant by default.
A classic '70s houseplant making a quiet comeback. Throws plantlets ('spiderettes') on long stems — propagate by snipping and rooting in water.
The plant that survives a forgotten apartment over a long vacation. Underground rhizomes store water for weeks, and the glossy leaves shrug off dust and low light.