Philodendron Esmeraldense - Exact Plant XL #20A gift plant A cultivar hybrid of Philodendron

A cultivar hybrid of Philodendron erubescens and Philodendron gloriosum that combines the upright

quiet venation

resembling an abstract bowtie or open-ended spade

and the interplay of silver and pink venation character from both parents

verrucosum

Philodendron Esmeraldense - Exact Plant XL #20A gift plant A cultivar hybrid of PhilodendronPhilodendron Esmeraldense Formally described by Thomas Croat and published in Aroideana in 2016, Philodendron esmeraldense is named for Ecuador's Esmeraldas Province in the humid northwestern lowlands where it was first documented a hemiepiphytic climber endemic to the tropical wet forests and lower montane rainforests of Ecuador, growing as an appressed climber on tree trunks in the perpetually moist understory. The leaves are the defining character: