13/11/2024
Wishes can come true!! 🥹☘️🔥
For 2+ years I have coveted a mature and fenestrated Monstera Burle Marx Flame. After only ever seeing them on the internet in USA/Asia/Europe, and also the price tag for mature plants (even today around $700 each), I grabbed the opportunity at some just out of vitro plantlets earlier in the year. The plants came and even then it seemed a pipedream as these are notorious for taking 73 years to mature and fully fenestrate.
The Monstera Burle Marx Flame, with its full botanical name Monstera Deliciosa ‘Burle Marx Flame,’ is a captivating plant native to Brazil. Thriving as an epiphyte, it elegantly clings to trees in the lush rainforests of its homeland. This plant’s name honors the esteemed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, who discovered it in the 1970s. It wasn’t until 1981 that the Monstera Burle Marx Flame was released to the public, marking the beginning of its journey into the hearts of plant enthusiasts worldwide. Classified as a cultivar or variety of the species Monstera Deliciosa, it shares the same family with other Monsteras, the Araceae, known for their distinctive flowering plants. It is said to be a Monstera x Philodendron hybrid.
Honestly in awe of these plants literally daily. I don't think another example such as this exists on the continent, definitely not hand grown. Wishes can come true!! ☘️🔥 Happy !
