Please note: This cutting ships once rooted. It is rooting in water now, and I will ship it as soon as it has a healthy set of roots, usually in about 3 to 5 weeks.

Meet the Monstera Aurea, the sunny side of the Monstera family. Its leaves carry splashes and whole sections of golden yellow and soft lime green, and no two leaves are ever the same.

This is a 2-leaf top cutting taken from my own mother plant. The newest leaf shows strong sectoral variegation, with almost half the leaf in bright chartreuse and yellow. The older leaf has pretty marbled streaks. There is also yellow streaking on the newest leaf stem, right where the next leaf will grow. I root it in water here in my plant room, and it ships once it has a healthy set of roots. It ships bare root, wrapped to keep the roots moist, so you can pot it up in the mix you love. The cutting you receive is the one pictured.

When It Arrives: Pot it up right away in a pot just a little bigger than the roots. Water-grown roots are used to steady moisture, so keep the mix lightly moist (not soggy) for the first 2 to 3 weeks while it settles in, then switch to normal watering. A small pause in growth during this switch is normal.