Philodendron Species, Lacy Tree Philodendron, Cut-Leaf Philodendron, Selloum

I have had this plant for nearly 20 years. The “trunk” is nearly 2 feet tall. It was cut at the base on accident. Will the trunk root...Read More if planted?

In the ground already in 2016-17 when we bought the house but young I think. They planted a lot of tropical, non-hardy stuff to make the...Read More house show well. 3 consecutive lows that winter (28F, 23F, 27F) killed one but two came back They were all next to a fence and facing south with a wall about 10 feet across from them on the south side. My neighbor's very mature ones with trunks were exposed but were fine.Winter 2017-18 it got down to 18F w/ a 44F high followed by 28F but I protected mine with mini-xmas lights (incandescent) with sheets over them. My neighbor couldn't and didn't but and they came back after a lot of pruning tho she may had a few casualties. I bought others for other beds and all are doing well. They go from 3 gallon to enormous and even start to get a trunk in a single Houston season! They do sunburn if they get overhead summer sun but otherwise like lots of light and water. They then bloom but I haven't noticed any scent.

This is regularly used as far north as zone 8b for it's luxuriant tropical look, but you can expect terrible damage almost each winter if...Read More they are not placed strategically and/or protected.

For the first couple years I was here, I thought philodendrons were cold hardy enough along the Northern Gulf Coast in the Panhandle of FL. However, these were mild winters with temps only in the low 20's. Below this, they cave.

During the winter in early 2010, we had a freeze down to 17 degrees where I witnessed mass damage. Large specimens as much as 5+ feet tall were gone.

Any lucky mature plants that were still around after that were finished off in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 winters where lowest temps were 17 and 18 degrees respectively.

However, this is such a vigorous plant that even if a large stem that comprises seemingly the entire plant is killed, much of the time it will sprout back from the root. Still, in extreme cases, there is a possibility of complete death, especially if unprotected and/or in exposed locations.

I bought a plant in 2009 and placed it under some trees in my backyard. With only covering it in some blankets, it does well enough that not all leaves are burned some years. In the winter of 2013-14 I did lose the stems though, but was pleased that it quickly sent up two new shoots that are almost as big as the original plant 1 and 1/2 years later.

With a protected location and/or cold protection, philodendron selloum can still be satisfactorily used in zone 8b. Optimal spots are under and around other plants/trees or against the house. Still, even in these protected locations, it is important to cover them in harder winters, otherwise you may lose a large portion of the original plant.

The sap stains everything! They grow like weeds, and need to be trimmed every couple of weeks. You cannot over trim them; they grow back ...Read Morebefore you put your loppers away! If one does need to go, you might need a chainsaw to remove the trunk. And many roots to dig out. We thought they were attractive, airy, space-fillers. I would not plant them again.

Need help. I inherited this plant when my mother passed 4 years ago. She had it since before I was born. I am now 39. When I brought it h...Read Moreome I divided it and repotted it. They both have done great but the small one is ready for repotting. Sadly I can't remember what kind of soil to use. I know I had a mixture of 2-3 different types. Can you please help?

This is a very interesting plant. My mother has always loved them and I planted a couple in her honor. They look beautiful.
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I bought two of these plants 2 weeks ago from home depot and they were just beautiful, lush and huge in their 10 gal pot. I transplanted...Read More and repotted with moisture control mix potting soil and placed them in my bay window that had curtains. After about two weeks, the leaves started to turn yellow, so I watered less, and now the tips of the leaves are turning brown all the way down the stem. I tried removing my curtain, and adding blinds, closing my vents...don't know what else to do. Can someone please help. When I first bought them, you could not see the middle of the plant there were so many branches....now they are still plenty branches and leaves, but they are not as dense. What ma I doing wrong. I live in VA, in zone 7, so replanting outside with our winters is not an option.

Beautifu, one of the most intriguing plants I've ever seen. Grows very well here in central Florida, but how many hours of sun a day does...Read More it require to bloom?

We had two of these already planted by previous owners when we moved into our house seventeen years ago, so I know they are at least that...Read More old. A third one came up next to Mr. and Mrs. Phil about three years ago, so now I have a clump of three. I love the tropical look they give our yard. I plant shade loving plants under them. They produce a large white flower that smells heavenly in the late evening hours, the flower looks like a peeled banana. I have planted three more this past year because I love the tropical look. They are pretty freeze hardy suffering browning on the leaves from temperatures that go into the twenties, but mine are under oak trees and have that added protection. I notice if they are out in the open they will completely get zapped to the ground, but they always seem to come back. Be careful where you plant these in warm humid climates because they can grow huge. I do trim mine because they start to cover my BBQ area.

I love this plant! I was afraid I had lost mine this past winter in Central Florida because we had unusually cold temperatures (some wer...Read Moree down to 16 degrees!). The leaves all died but thankfully, new ones emerged from the trunks in the spring! I just wanted to comment on the wonderful fragrance that the flowers on this plant produce because I haven't heard anyone else comment on it. It took me quite a while to figure out where that heavenly fragrance was coming from in the air at night time. For some reason, they only seem to produce fragrance at night and the fragrance is similar to magnolias but even better! I walk by them all day long and don't smell a thing but at night the fragrance is awesome!

I have a tree philodendron and would like to root another one from it. What is the easiest way to do this? I would like to keep the origi...Read Morenal plant looking pretty. Thanks for your help. Nancy

I bought my tree philodendron back in 1975 at a department store. It was in a 4 inch plastic pot at the time with one or two, inch-long,...Read More heart shaped leaves sticking up, a nice small plant to start out my collection, so I thought. It lived in my room for the next 4 years and kept growing these huge leaves while I kept moving it from one larger pot to another. It stayed at my parents place for a few years after I married. They moved it downstairs into the living room where it grew a trunk and became a staked tree. My mother finally said she was tired of caring for it and would I please move it to my house. It made the trip okay in the bed of my husband's pickup truck but began to quickly die off at my house. It didn't like the well water at my place, so I repotted it and used rainwater to try and save it. When new shoots sprouted from the base of the old trunk I was delighted. I continued to catch rainwater to keep it happy until I got a filtering machine from our water conditioning company. It's now growing fine in a north facing window here in south central PA, I call it my old friend. It doesn't like liquid plant food so I have to add organic potting soil now and then. It's got a trunk again and is quite an impressive-looking plant.

This plant was in our yard when we purchased our home. It was unattended for many years and totally blocked the front door. We have nickn...Read Moreamed it "devils blood" because the sap will stain your clothing. Be very careful ! Another poster said it produces a bloom that may be edible. It isn't !!! We cut down 12 and left 3 in our yard. we are in south Florida, so it loves the weather. I trimmed one back last spring and it is 8 feet tall now.

I have two of these growing full sun in Houston and they're huge and constantly thriving!

I love this plant. I have a beautiful specimen in my front yard that has grown to about 15 feet tall and has leaves the size of my 32 gal...Read Morelon yard waste trash cans. I am in coastal San Diego so it grows here in much the same way as you would expect in it's natural habitat. My 15 foot specimen has been able ot reach such heights by leaning on a couple of King Palms and wrapping it's aerial roots around the palm trunks. Without the support it would be laying on the ground. Keep this in mnid when planting. It is far more striking and unusual to see a specimen of such great height as they generally get cut down in San Diego once they fall over.

A survivor.
I have had this plant for 12 years as a houseplant and it is near unkillable. This species started my love affair with...Read More plants.
I first rescued some roots from a winter outside in Virginia. They were discarded, tops completely killed, it was late winter. I cut off all rotten portions of the root to discover living tissue which I lovingly rinsed in the bathtub under warm water while talking encouragingly to it. I then planted it in a pot and that was that, I was hooked. This plant has been through an entire year in a garage without water or light at my mom's (she forgot it) and is now bouncing back beautifully. This is a great houseplant that can easily be cut back if it gets too large.

Very architectural but think about where you will plant as it can be a space hog, at least in warmer climates. Mine has been flowering ...Read Morefor the last 3 yrs. I prune mine in spring and fall, otherwise it would be much, much bigger.

I always loved this plant when I was living in my old abode on the North East. It was a tough house plant and nice looking to boot. I had...Read More an old friend who lived in upstate NY and had a greenhouse she dismantled every spring. In it lived one of these philodendrons and when I first saw it on a summer day I thought I had stepped into some tropical paradise. The plant was huge! It turned out that the lady had cut off, with a sawzall! because it was so big, the top of the entire plant with the leaves when late fall came, and she reassembled the greenhouse over her tropical plants. By the time she was ready to re-disassemble it, the plant already had regrown its first leaves and was ready to continue growing in the sunny part of the year. I believe it even had flowers. Here in San Diego were have truly gigantic specimens growing in Balboa Park. I got mine, a flowering picture of which I uploaded to the picture collection, when I found a trunk of this plant laying on the side walk one day, baking in the sun. It had no leaves, but you could see a tiny green speck at the very tip of it. It looked like an incredibly large sausage, bent almost into an L shape. I took it home and dug a shallow groove into which I laid in one side of the L, the other side pointing straight upwards, attached to a stick. I covered the lower part with compost, and started misting the tip daily (via my irrigation system). It began growing leaves then aerials and by now (2 years later) it is taller than me, and flowering.

My family has had this plant for 33 years. It is in a container that probably 2 adults can fit in. It takes seven 40 lb. bags of dirt. ...Read MoreIt grew from a root. Now it is a big a two refrigerators side by side and is just as tall. One stalk grew then it just quit developing leaves. Then it like died off and this little shoot started growing. The stalk that died off, we had to take it out of its container and cut it off with a saw. The little shoot grew so huge to what I have now. The summer of "07" it looked like one more leaf was going to grow, but it never opened up. It was on the very top but it never opened up. I was so sad I thought it was dying. I live in Ohio, so I have cold winters. I was bringing it in for the winter (we have to move it with a dolly, and about 4 adult men to move it in the house) and I noticed these two new shoots coming out, now the are getting big. The original stalk looks like it is dying, like it could break off. Now I have 2 of them growing in the same container, the roots are wrapping around the old stalk and I don't know what to do with it now. I would llike to seperate them but I don't know how. I have never seen it bloom and I have never seen seeds. If anyone can help me or have advice please e-mail me at [email protected] I would appriciate it sooo much.

This was the first houseplant I got for my apartment's east facing window (see pics). After it settled in, it quickly started growing num...Read Moreerous huge leaves. Each one is larger than the previous, so I must be doing something right. It gets watered after the top inch or two of the soil dries out, and I have given it 1/4 strength miracle grow once since the start of spring. Also, I repotted it up from a 10in to 12in pot a few weeks ago and I've already got new aerial roots appearing.
If you have space and morning light, you'll find this is a great starter houseplant.

We have a huge amount of this plant in our side yard and I love the Tropical Look it gives the Landscape. We have had hard freezes in th...Read Moree past which will knock this Philodendron right down, but it always comes back in the Spring. A beautiful, easy to grow Monster of a plant! We planted these in our yard 32 years ago, they've never been fertilized, get water twice a week when sprinklers are set and they have grown quite large!

Boring! All it does is produce leaves. The previous owner of our house evidently liked it a lot because it is planted in a number of pl...Read Moreaces. It takes every exposure from full sun to full shade and handles a wide variation of watering. Nothing seems to affect it adversely. I plan to rip them all out and replace them with plants with flowers.

I bought this plant for in 1 gallon for $19.99 at a supermarket. I was so pretty all summer and then towards the end of the fall it star...Read Moreted to look sad. As time went on, it just died but something told me not to throw it away. I recently just dumped to pot out to see what was going on, if anything and sure enough there were still some apparently healthy roots and even a tiny little leaf, completely white from being buried under the dirt!! I am glad that I repotted the tuber or crom or whatever it is. Cant wait for the spring time to see if it comes back!

I love it! Grows great in zone 8b. I have to cut it back every winter and comes back with a vengeance in spring. I have never seen any...Read More of mine flower. My newest one was purchased as a 1G and is now about 4 ft tall and wide after one growing season.

this is planted everywhere down here in hilton head and bluffton, sc. from what ive seen, it has little trouble in the winter here. the o...Read Morenly thing i dont really like about it is that its flower stinks to high heavens when it gets old.

I love this plant. I bought it relatively small, and had it for years that way. When I moved a year and a half ago, it got very badly dam...Read Moreaged, and I lost most of the folige. I kept watering it anyway, kept it in smewhat low light most of the day, and it came back. I put it outside in the spring and leave it there all year. This "houseplant" is a monster. I HAVE to move it outside so I can have my living room back! This plant thrives with or without attention. I love the roots that pop over the soil...a friend of a friend had one with roots wrapped completely around the outside of the container it was in, and it looked happy that way! Fantastic plant!

Grows fine in zone 9a, with total neglect. It's growing in a corner, getting little sun. I'm going to move it out to a more open area thi...Read Mores year, and I hope it will really take off.

This plant is _definitely_ hardy in 9b and maybe even 9a. I see mature specimens growing all over the place around here.

I have had this plant since 1973. I set it out on the deck in the spring and move it inside in winter. I water it every Sunday morning wi...Read Moreth a gallon of tap water. So far I havent killed it. Haha. Last year I gave it a shot or two of Miracle Grow and it didnt seem to do anything so I didnt do it again. This is the 1st year I can remember that it has a flower, it could be that I have never looked before. I know this sounds silly but I am a single guy and it's the best I can do.

I got this plant as a house plant.
It got too big so i put it out side and it did well.
I have never seen it bloom and didn...Read More't know it would or could.
I cut it back in the winter and it comes back in spring.

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I have had to dig this plant up and pot it for the move it is doing well,... digging it up didnt hurt it a bit.
it is happy in its little pot but will be finding a better home in the yard soon.
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We have several huge specimens that have been growing on the east side of our house in Zone 9a with no attention for over 40 years. Cold...Read More that has killed citrus trees only nipped the edges of the leaves. I'd say it is pretty tough.

They give a true tropical appearance to the landscape.

I was given one of these plants out of a friends yard about a year ago. Last summer it did really well but this year the leaves turn bro...Read Morewn and dry up a few weeks after they come out. The plant is continuously blooming new leaves though so I don't think it is dying. It gets plenty of water. Does anyone know of any diseases it may have or what might be wrong? (I am in zone 9.)
Thanks!
Marybelle (e-mail, [email protected])

I recieved this plant from one of my friends who was moving and no idea what it was or even how to take care of it but it has been growin...Read Moreg woderfully. It is huge though, takes up ALOT of space.

This plant can grow to huge jungle-like proportions here in Hawaii. Very hardy and almost impossible to get rid of...any little bit of t...Read Morehe root system left, even just laying in the ground, will take off and grow.

Beautiful leaves and it can fill in bare spots anywhere needed. Fast growing. Sometimes can be seen taking support on a tree trunk and managing to grow up high on the tree.

Phil was given to me 28 years ago by my best friend when she moved from Florida to California. We have been together ever since. He prefe...Read Morers a slightly acidic soil.When I made my last move he was just too big to bring in his pot; so we split him into 6 pieces.He hasn't fully recovered yet. But he is still hanging in there. About ten years ago I was sucessful at making seeds on him. Doing so is not for the faint hearted. It requires some amount of time and effort. If you have several plants blooming at once you need to: Cut the hood or shroud of the flower off about two or three inches down when it opens, Make sure you are going to have another open flower on another plant to put the pollen on. When the cut off shroud closes back up, it will produce pollen on the exposed part that you cut the shroud back on. Take this pollen and put it on the tip of the central part of the open flower that you did not cut the shroud off of. When it closes back up the seed making process begins. You will know you have been sucessful when you can gently rub the outside of the pollinated flower and feel what feels like corn kernals inside of it. These are the seeds. Wait for them to mature, open the pod and dry the seeds or plant them. I have been able to make seeds on mine several times using this method. Good Luck with yours.

Grows fine in 9a.

I have had tremendous success with this plant as a potted plant as well as in the yard. I moved from Melbourne, Forida, (where it was a ...Read Morecommon sight, looking very exotic on tall, bent stalks throughout the year) to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where the foliage died back during the winter and returned beautifully in the spring.

I am now living in Huntington, West Virginia and have one that I brought with me in a pot. I believe it would not be hardy here outside through the year, so I will move it inside for the winter. I had to sell a lot of my plants before I moved from Louisiana, but this one was just beginning to develop a stalk and I couldn't part with it. I cut all the leaves off so I could fit it in the back of my covered pickup, and so far one leaf has come back out. Even though this is a very common plant throughout the south, I cannot imagine living without it in my garden or house, especially now that I am not actually in the south.

Beware of the sap of this plant and also the pollen on the blossom. If the sap gets on you, it leaves a stain. Some people are allergic t...Read Moreo it. I am, and I suffered with a rash (like poison ivy) at all the points of contact. It burned and itched for 3 weeks. I am now very careful when trimming this plant.

This plant grows well in Summerville, South Carolina (USDA Zone 8a). It dies when a hard frost hits and re-emerges in the Spring. We've...Read More had this plant over 20 years and it's never bloomed, probably because it's too far north. One of our favorites, deer have never nibbled it, and there's never been a problem with insect infestations.

This plant brings back memories of my childhood. My dad had half a dozen in various places around our New Orleans yard. He even harvested seeds.

I had one of these plants for many years. It started out as a houseplant, then I put it outside for some sunshine and rain. When I trie...Read Mored to take it back inside it had rooted through the bottom of the pot into the ground, where I left it. It was my baby and I really liked it. So when I moved I had someone dig it up for me (it was about 8 feet tall.) It survived the move and I enjoyed it many more years. I have moved again and I have some of the root and I'm hoping it will survive.

This plant has a mind of its own. I had it close to my last house and I had siding on it and shutters. The braces that this plant puts out for support started under my siding and into one of my shutters. I had to cut them. Every winter the first frost would do damage to it, even though I would try to cover it with old sheets. We usually severely cut it back and it would come back in the spring. I am in South Georgia, not far from the Florida line.

When you cut it back for the winter, cover it with several layers of sheeting or whatever if you are going to have below freezing temperatures as it can't stand lots of cold. I usually had blooms on my plant every year, which would open up and look like a large banana which I was told was edible.

I live in Maryland on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. I just bought one of these at a garage sale. I transplanted it (my wife actu...Read Moreally did it) to a larger pot and have it on the deck.

My mom has a few really good plants. Apparently all parts of the plant are poisonous if ingested except the fruits for most types. I have...Read More a couple, but they've not bloomed even yet.

Region: This plant thrives along the gulf coast from Texas to Florida

I got this as a house plant, and I hate houseplants so I planted it outdoors and it really took off. It likes rich soil and is a heavy fe...Read Moreeder. Mine is not staked, it does not seem to need it. I have also uploaded a photo of the flower of which it had three this year.