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What opened this month on Aroidpedia. New records with their plates, the pages that appeared, the stories behind the names, and word from the grower network — one letter on the first of the month.
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Inside No. 2 · October 2026
What a letter holds
- Name histories
- New genera
- Field history
- New records
Your “pothos” has a past. Spend enough time around houseplants and “pothos” starts to sound like a growth habit: a vine with heart-shaped leaves, something silvery spilling from a hanging basket, a climber working its way up a moss pole. Read the story 
From the canopy to the swamp. Since the launch edition, Scindapsus, Syngonium, Cyrtosperma and Philodendron have joined Aroidpedia, each on a page of its own: what the genus is, where it grows and how to tell it from its look-alikes, with its morphology, its cultivation, a timeline of its species and a map of its native range and climate. 
Following a collector up Kerinci, 1920. On March 15th, 1920, the Dutch collector Hendrik Bünnemeijer gathered an Amorphophallus in forest on Gunung Kerinci, Sumatra’s highest volcano, and wrote down one altitude: 1,770 meters. 
Monstera, name by name. 85 records have joined the archive: 73 species, 9 cultivars and 3 hybrid cultivars.