Indoor flowers Monstera fully justify their name – with their wide, “spreading” leaves, the plants resemble outlandish monsters, and the comparison is completed by long roots, located almost along the entire height of the stem.
How to care for a monstera flower, as well as how monstera flowers look in the photo, you will learn on this page. You will also receive recommendations for replanting these plants.
Family: Aroid, deciduous, ornamental, shade-tolerant.
Powerful curving stem up to 5 m long, hanging tentacle-like aerial roots and large (up to 50 cm in diameter) dark green leaves, rounded with deeply dissected edges, on long petioles, which sometimes begin to “cry” – a little creepy. In fact, this is another very useful and unassuming plant – monstera.
The most common type in indoor floriculture is monstera delicacy, or delicious, lovely, attractive (Monstera deliciosa).
How to care for a indoor monstera flower
Of course, the monstera flower can be kept at home, its main requirement is high air humidity. She does not like stagnation of water in the pan. You can put a humidifier, vessels with water next to the plant, periodically spray or wipe the leaves with a wet cloth. You yourself will benefit from this: an increase in humidity in the room has a beneficial effect on the skin and mucous membranes, and dust removed from the leaves is also “removed” from the air around you.
In addition to cleaning the air from dust and participating in the regulation of air humidity, Monstera releases phytoncides that have a detrimental effect on many pathogens, as well as substances that have a calming effect on the nervous system, relieve tension, headaches and heart rhythm disturbances.
Care and transplantation of indoor flower monstera
Caring for monstera flowers is not difficult – the plant is not demanding for lighting and temperature. Direct sunlight can cause leaf burns. True, with a prolonged lack of light, there will be no large dissected leaves.
When caring for a indoor monstera flower, you need to ensure the room temperature is in the range of + 16 … + 25 ° С. As you grow, you need good support. “Creepy” aerial roots cannot be removed, they are directed to the pot and rooted so that the plant receives additional moisture, nutrition and support as well. It is better to plant the monstera in a wide container using a soil mixture of turf, compost, peat and sand (1: 2: 1: 1).
Monstera indoor flowers are transplanted up to three years old every year in spring. 3-4-year-old monsters are transplanted every 2-3 years, adults – every 3-4 years or only renew the topsoil in a pot.
