Monstera adansonii 'Mint'

Mint is a softly variegated selection of the popular Monstera adansonii 'Swiss Cheese Vine', carrying pale mint-green and cream marbling across the narrow, fenestrated leaves rather than the stark white sectors of an albo form. It shares adansonii's fast-growing, densely fenestrated trailing or climbing habit, and the gentler mint tone makes variegation loss less visually noticeable during the plant's typical light-hungry growing conditions than starker white-variegated forms.

Native range

Cultivated mint-variegated selection of Monstera adansonii.

Classification

Genus

Monstera

Family

Araceae

Type

Variegated

Growth habit

Climbing or trailing hemiepiphyte

Form of

Monstera adansonii

Morphology

Leaf shape

OvateEgg-shaped leaves, with the wider end near the base. with characteristic oval fenestration holes

Leaf length

10-20 cm

Leaf width

8-15 cm

Petiole colour

Green, cream-streaked

Venation

PinnateVeins or lobes arranged like a feather, branching out symmetrically on both sides of a single main central vein.

Texture

Thin, semi-glossy

Variegation

Soft mintVariegation featuring a speckled, marbled, or light pastel-green pattern.-green and cream marbling across the blade, a gentler, pastel tone than the stark white sectors of an alboVariegation featuring stark white patches or sectors, which completely lack chlorophyll. adansonii

Growth habit

Climbing or trailing with slender stems