Queen of the jungle

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Native to Southern Mexico and Central America, Monstera Adansonii, also known as the Swiss cheese plant, is loved for its bright and forest green colored heart-shaped foliage. Its famously perforated leaves, called fenestrations, are a unique adaptation that let sunlight pass through its broad canopy and reach the forest floor. Their unique patterns are genetically predetermined when the leaf sprouts, and with time become larger and more common, while the leaves get larger and darker.