Thaumatophyllum xanadu (Croat, J.Boos & Mayo) Sakur., Calazans & Mayo
Araceae
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Summary
Philodendron xanadu, synonym Thaumatophyllum xanadu, is a perennial plant belonging to the arum family Araceae. It is native to south Brazil and Paraguay, but is widely cultivated as a landscape plant in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates.
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About the genus · Thaumatophyllum
Thaumatophyllum is a sometimes recognized genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae corresponding to Philodendron subg. Meconostigma. Its species are native to northern (tropical) South America.
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At a glance
Also known as Philodendron xanadu Croat, Mayo & J.Boos.
Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by Araceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.
Warmth and air Cold floor 12 °C (conventional for a tropical foliage plant, archetype table).
The archetype table’s figure; no habitat figure for this species.
Cold floor: 12 °C, the archetype table's conventional minimum for a tropical foliage plant (grouped by Araceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant); no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The archetype table's conventional minimum for the group; no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Rafael Silva, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) Vladislav Isaev, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Eduardo A. Bolaños Vargas, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Karim Haddad, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Thaumatophyllum xanadu, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
History & registers
Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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