Accession Data

Philodendron ornatum

Family: Araceae

Country of Origin: Trinidad-Tobago to S. Trop. America

Description: [syn. P. imperiale Schott; P. Sodiroi Hort. ex Bellair & St.-Leger]

Scandent; internodes less than 1 inch long, to 4 inches in juvenile phase, covered with fibrous remains of scalelike leaves; leaf blades reflexed, broadly ovate, to 2 feet long (much smaller in juvenile phase), deeply cordate, dark green, sometimes splotched with gray, veins red beneath; petioles as long as blades, flat on upper surface, especially toward apex, reddish at apex; peduncle red, with white streaks, spathe 7 inches long, long-subulate apically, cream colored inside, tube green outside, blade suffused with red outside.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10a-11

Accession #: 198500012

Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 4108

Quantity: 1

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: monocots

Order: Alismatales

Family: Araceae

SubFamily: Aroideae

Tribe: Philodendreae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018

References

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. e-Monocot
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 19 May 2015.
  4. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 19 May 2015

Images

Philodendron ornatum