Monstera Deliciosa

The Monstera was first discovered and described by the French Botanist Charles Plumier. The French king actually was so happy with this discovery that he made him Royal Botanist. (Actually this isn’t true as he was made Royal Botanist before his trip to the Americas which lead to his discovery of the Monstera. It would nevertheless make the Monstera even more badass.) He saw then the Monstera Adansonii and gave him the name Arum hederaceum amplis follies perforatis which was Charles Plumier’s sassy way of saying in latin that it was a plant in the arum family with strongly perforated leaves.