Amydrium
Amydrium medium
Also called Amydrium medium 'Silver' and Silver monstera (shop name)
Houseplant · AroidsNOT A MONSTERA despite the shop label — a different genus, and its leaves start as plain silver arrows and only split once the plant is climbing something tall. Give it a two-metre pole or you will never see an adult leaf.
Care at a glance
- Ease
- Medium
- Water
- Once a weekDrench and drain — water the whole surface until it runs from the holes.
- Light
- Medium to bright indirect
- Feed
- Every 30 days
- Humidity
- High
- Hardiness
- Indoors, or out in high summer RHS H1B, to 10°C
- Size
- 1.5 m tall · 0.6 m across
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Origin
- South-East Asia
Is it safe for pets and people?
No animal-poison authority lists this plant either way. Sold almost everywhere as "silver monstera", which is also the name of Monstera siltepecana in this same file. This is a different GENUS wearing that label; neither plant is a guide to the other.
Nobody has checked this one against a source for us yet, so treat it as unknown rather than safe.
Neither authority names Amydrium. That is an absence and not a clean bill — and it is an aroid, a family in which every plant either authority does name is toxic.
Checked against ASPCA and RHS on 2026-09-22. Where a source says nothing, we say nothing.
A guide, not veterinary or medical advice. If a pet or a person has eaten a plant and you are worried, call your vet or doctor now — don’t wait for signs to appear. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.
First signs of trouble
- Years of plain silver arrows and no fenestration. It only splits once it is climbing something tall — a two-metre pole, not a hoop.Never splits · disorder
- New leaves plainer than the old ones. Too little light; the sheen is made by it.Silver fading · disorder