🌱🌱 Intermediate "A little picky - but worth it"

Every new leaf unfurls in a ring of red, pink and cream before settling into mottled green. The color show is the whole point.

What you get: 1 live plant, shipped potted in its plastic nursery pot, plus a plant care card, a QR code to our free online plant guide, and a discount code for your next order.

Quick facts

• Difficulty: intermediate. A little picky, but worth it
• Light: bright, indirect
• Water: when the top 1–2 inches of soil have dried, then soak. Roughly every 7–10 days in the growing season, every 2–3 weeks in fall and winter
• Soil: loose, chunky aroid mix of peat, orchid bark, perlite and coir or sphagnum in roughly equal parts
• Feed: light balanced liquid fertilizer during active growth
• Outdoors in USDA Zones 10–11; houseplant everywhere else
• Mature size: about 30 inches
• Toxic to pets and people if chewed

A hybrid of Philodendron tortum and P. wendlandii, and slower than most Philodendrons, so it won't outgrow its spot before you're ready. An accessible way into collector hybrids.

Fresh out of the box: give it 1–2 weeks to settle. A droopy leaf or a slow week is normal travel drama, not a death sentence.

Cold weather: heat packs are required November through February for the live arrival guarantee. Outside those months, if any stop on the route from California to you could drop below 50°F, add a heat pack. Plants are dramatic about frostbite, and honestly, fair.

Live arrival guarantee: if your plant shows up in rough shape, send us a photo within 48 hours of delivery. For an eligible claim we may provide a replacement when available, a refund to the original payment method, a partial refund, store credit, or care and recovery instructions when the issue is cosmetic or reversible. Heat packs are required November through February for the guarantee. Orders over $100 ship UPS or USPS with shipping insurance. Orders usually ship within a few days, Monday through Wednesday, so plants never sit in a carrier warehouse over a weekend (we may make an exception if you're close by, likely to receive it by Saturday, or the weather along the route is mild). Full shipping and refund policies are on our website. Every plant is nursery grown in California.

Water: Water when the top 1-2 inches of soil have dried out, then soak thoroughly. Growing season typically every 7-10 days; stretch to 2-3 weeks in fall/winter.
Feeding: Light, balanced liquid fertilizer during active growth.

A loose, chunky, well-aerated aroid mix — peat base with orchid bark, perlite, and coarse coconut coir or sphagnum moss in roughly equal parts. Target pH 6.0-6.8.

Not cold hardy. Keep as a houseplant below zone 10.

Dormancy:

• No Dormancy

Growing Zones (unless Indoors):

Native Area:

Hybrid cultivar; parent species native to Brazil (P. tortum) and Costa Rica through northern South America (P. wendlandii)

• Stem cuttings
• Air layering (higher success rate for this hybrid)

• Greenhouse
• Indoors

• Do you offer free shipping?
• Wild Wonders Oasis will run free shipping offers once orders have reached a certain threshold. You can find this information on the Product Pages, Cart Page, and Checkout Page.
  
  Shipping costs are calculated at checkout based on your order, location, selected carrier, and shipping speed. Basically, the plants need a safe little travel plan, and unfortunately the postal goblins do require payment. 📦🌿
  
  We do our best to offer available shipping options at checkout so you can choose what works best for you.
• Do you offer express shipping?
• Yes — express shipping options may be available at checkout.
  
  At checkout, you’ll see a variety of postal carriers and shipping speeds to choose from, depending on your location and the items in your order. Pick the option that works best for you and your leafy little travel companions. 🌿
  
  Please note that shipping speeds begin once the carrier receives the package — not while your plant is still being lovingly packed like the tiny botanical celebrity it is.