Philodendron Paloraense starter plant heart-shaped leaves with striking contrast

heart-shaped leaves with striking contrast veining

but an extraordinary one for growers who can accommodate it

indirect light (2–3 hours of gentle morning sun enhances variegation

semi-glossy green with a leathery texture and wavy

Philodendron Paloraense starter plant heart-shaped leaves with striking contrastPhilodendron Paloraense Philodendron paloraense A rare hemiepiphytic climber native to the cloud forests of Ecuador, named for the Palora canton of Morona Santiago province where it was collected. It produces elongated, deeply serrated leaves with a distinctive silvery blue to blue green hue that develops under good light a coloration unusual in the genus and one of its primary identifying features. Related to P. holtonianum in its trisect leaf form,