Monstera dubia 'Albo'

Monstera dubia 'Albo' is the white-variegated colour break of the famous shingle plant, layering crisp white sectoral patches onto the small, overlapping juvenile leaves that press flat against a support in dubia's signature tiled display. Because juvenile dubia leaves are already small and thin, white sectoring can remove a substantial proportion of a leaf's chlorophyll-producing tissue, making growth noticeably slower than the plain species and demanding careful light management to avoid stalling the plant entirely. It shares the same shingling growth habit and eventual transition to large fenestrated adult leaves as the species, though few variegated specimens are grown on long enough to reach that adult stage.

Native range

White colour-break cultivar of Monstera dubia, Central to South America

Classification

Genus

Monstera

Family

Araceae

Type

Variegated

Growth habit

Shingling to root-climbing climber

Form of

Monstera dubia

Morphology

Leaf shape

Heart-shaped (juvenile) to deeply fenestrated/lobed (mature)

Leaf length

8-15cm (juvenile) to 40-60cm (mature)

Leaf width

6-12cm (juvenile)

Petiole colour

Green, short

Venation

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

Texture

Smooth, matte to semi-glossy

Variegation

Sectoral white variegation over the natural silver-mottled juvenile leaf

Growth habit

Shingling flat against support