The 'Burle Marx Flame' has been popular for a while now, but has been inaccessible to most for most of that time due to crazy high price tags, and relative scarcity. Recently, thanks to developments in tissue culture, this beautiful Monstera has become more readily available, and so we thought this would be the perfect chance to celebrate it as our POTM!

A couple of weeks ago we visited a friend of ours, Suki, who lives in a beautiful apartment covered in the most happy and healthy houseplants. We instantly fell in love with his Burle Marx, with its the thick, angular leaves but compact growth. We're big fans of fenestrations here at The Watered Garden and this plant is a perfect example of how extreme they can become; these leaves change so much as it matures. Deep lobes creating leaves which resemble flames make this plant so unique in its genus, they're nothing like any other Monstera. We find this plant to be so visually intriguing that we had to give it a Plant of the Month spot.