This little 'accidental propagation' I made when I accidentally lopped off the top of my plant in the terrarium is now in active growth in the greenhouse!!!! I am so excited!

Not a whole lot is known about this plant. It was found growing in the garden of the famed plant maven Burle-Marx. It is definitely a climber....if it goes lateral, the leaves get teensy to nonexistent. But that being said, no one has ever heard of anyone who has ever grown this plant getting leaves longer than 6" max. Most are about 4" on mature growth. Which I guess is what makes it such a great terrarium plant

I've wondered about this plant. I see how it got it's name, but when I first heard it I was expecting it to look a lot more like a philodendron Burle Marx.

Actually Burle Marx (first name Roberto) has many many plants named for him. He was Brazilian and was very famous for his award winning designs of parks and gardens. He was also a rainforest conservationist and collected hundreds of plants for his private collections, including hundreds of philodendrons. The story goes that this little philo was discovered climbing up a tree in his garden. I am not even certain anyone knows exactly where it comes from or if it has been really well documented in the wild

I was thinking about this last night and remembered that somewhere in the past there had been a discussion on the old Aroid-L forum about this. The plant that you are talking about @Adriennevs is Philodendron Burle marxii. In the 1970's it was an extremely popular Philo, one of the best selling houseplants. Then it sort of fell by the wayside. The P. burly marx 'Fantasy' is actually STILL after all this time an undescribed species, because the ONLY place it has ever been found was its original discovery in the garden of Roberto Burle Marx in Brazil. No one knew exactly where he got it.

It has never been collected from the wild, and apparently, no one who has grown it has ever flowered it. It was postulated by some that this actually may not be the adult form, but instead, that this is a juvenile form, and that either the color, patterning or possibly even the leaf shape might be significantly different enough from this well-known form that when it is being seen, it is not being recognized.

Some people claim to have been growing it since the 1960's though, so it would seem that if it was going to undergo some significant morphological change, they would have noticed by now.

The usage of the name 'Fantasy' in the quotes like that usually designates a cultivar, but I think that in this case, its are like Anthurium Marie. It is just an unofficial name given to this plant.

But some places like Steve's Leaves erroneously sell it as a hybrid. Its not, its an undescribed species

Could it be a hybrid?
I have heard of the p. Burle Marx (Burle marxii to be proper) and I think there's a calathea as well named Burle Marx, isn't there? I've seen that one.
This plant should be named Burle Marx "mystery" instead of "fantasy"
I think it's beautiful regardless. And I'm glad yours is doing well.

No, apparently Roberto himself reported the vague general area where it came from (somewhere around Manaus) but no one has ever located it. I think the dude lived to be close to 95 years old. His memory may have slipped

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book was published in 1974 by New York Times it's called book of house plants by Joan faust the plant listed as the elephant ear Philodendron ( is the brule Marx ) I think

Hmmm I don't think so. That looks...like an 'elephant ear'. An alocasia. It could be P. hastatum as in the subtitle but if so its a poor representation