Window to the sun
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Native to Southern Mexico and Central America, the Monstera Deliciosa, or the Swiss Cheese Plant, displays breathtakingly large foliage that earns it its name from the Latin word for ‘monstrous’. Its famously perforated leaves, called fenestrations, are a unique adaptation that allows sunlight to pass through its broad canopy and reach the forest floor. These unique patterns are genetically predetermined when the leaf sprouts and, over time, become larger and more common while the leaves themselves grow larger and darker.