The Mission

With so much misinformation, false labels, and artificial hype surrounding plants and the mutations we love, there needs to be a scientific and data driven effort to understand these plants. One outside of the turbulent markets, and one driven solely by curiosity. While you browse through the database, you’ll notice ONLY visual descriptors and identification. No fancy names, no flavor, just observable data. By nature, sports are often unstable. Mutations come and go, but throughout botanical history sports have been isolated and grown into stable cultivars. As it stands there are next to zero new Monstera cultivars, yet thousands of us are discovering and finding interesting mutation with every nursery or Home Depot visit. You’ll notice each sport will have documentation of its growth and propagations, which will serve as a visual map into any efforts to multiply and stabilize any observable mutations. Once a plant has undeniably stabilized and cultivated and expressed truly unique traits- it can stand as a candidate for a possible new cultivar. There will be next to no mention of the financial and monetary implications of sports and their potential future cultivars, as this experiment is driven by curiosity, data and a love for plants.

For a mutation to be considered stabilized it must be present up until maturity. The mutation must also be reproducible, either through seed or several cuttings. That same mutation must also remain present in a majority of the cuttings until they also reach maturity often within a timespan of 3-4 years.

For a mutation to be considered a cultivar it not only needs to be stabilized but visually different from already existing cultivars within the same species. A botanist must be able to pinpoint that very plant from a dense line up of other cultivars.