pothos skeleton key - GARDENING
About half of the palms cultivated in the area are defoliated. The first batch of pictures is from roaming around Turkey Creek in Palm Bay, of damaged plants that grow wild. Here are freeze damaged giant leather fern (Acrostichum danaeifolium), Florida Butterfly Orchid (Encyclia tampensis), and Golden Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) Pothos stems and leaves are heavy and will exude slippery and fairly caustic sap that make them difficult for novices not used to being in trees to handle safely.
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Throw in swinging a chainsaw and trying to dislodge aerial roots from bark (especially tough on live oaks, less so on palms), and you've got some real work here. Pothos vine - TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms - PalmTalk Epipremnum aureum ('pothos') is an aggressive grower & not really a good climber for palms. It branches readily and can cover the host. I let slower or smaller growing aroids climb my palms (like Monstera deliciosa, Rhaphidophora tetrasperma, etc).
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Large fast growers (E. aureum & E. pinnatum) are better suited to climbing tall straight pines & other conifers. The Serenoa repens, in the lot next to my house, and the Pothos, a scrap from one of the house plants that got tossed in the woods next to my house, about 20 years ago, has really made ground with all the rain we've had this year, noticed how prolific it was, when I went to pic saw palmetto fruit...