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obliqua monstera adansonii Monstera obliqua PeruMonstera obliqua Peru Monstera obliqua Peru is a fine stemmed climbing Monstera with extremely perforated, delicate green leaves. Mature blades can show more open space than solid leaf surface, giving the plant a light, lace like appearance. The thin leaves respond quickly to unstable indoor conditions. Warmth, high humidity, careful watering, and a light vertical support reduce crisping and distortion while soft leaves expand. Thin perforated leaves
Monstera obliqua Peru
Monstera obliqua Peru is a fine-stemmed climbing Monstera with extremely perforated, delicate green leaves. Mature blades can show more open space than solid leaf surface, giving the plant a light, lace-like appearance.
The thin leaves respond quickly to unstable indoor conditions. Warmth, high humidity, careful watering, and a light vertical support reduce crisping and distortion while soft leaves expand.
Thin perforated leaves of Monstera obliqua Peru
- Leaf structure: Mature blades can be extremely open, with fine green tissue around the holes.
- Stem habit: Slender climbing stems produce aerial roots as they move upward.
- Growth sensitivity: New foliage marks easily while soft and expanding.
- Root needs: Fine roots need lightly moist substrate with enough air space to avoid stagnant wetness.
Humid forest growth and delicate foliage
Monstera obliqua is an accepted Araceae species native from Costa Rica to South Tropical America and Trinidad. It grows as a climber in wet tropical forest, with thin foliage, aerial roots, filtered light and humid air around tree trunks and other vertical surfaces.
The Peru form is known for especially open, lace-like leaf perforation. Indoors, sudden drying, cold wet substrate, and dry moving air can all damage new leaves before they fully harden.
Stability care for Monstera obliqua Peru
- Humidity: Aim for high humidity with gentle airflow, especially while leaves are expanding.
- Light: Provide bright filtered light; thin leaves can scorch quickly in direct sun.
- Watering: Keep the substrate lightly moist, allowing only the top layer to dry before watering again.
- Substrate: Use an airy, moisture-retentive aroid mix that drains freely and stays open around the roots.
- Support: Use a slim moss pole, fibre pole, or textured surface so the vine can attach as it climbs.
- Temperature: Keep consistently warm, about 20–27 °C, with no cold nights around the root zone.
- Feeding: Use very dilute feed on warm, actively rooting growth; skip strong doses because fine roots and thin leaves react quickly.
- Repotting: Repot in small increments with minimal root disturbance, keeping delicate stems supported while the mix is changed.
Crisping, distortion and slow recovery
- Crispy margins: Check watering gaps, humidity, and warm airflow around the newest leaves.
- Distorted new growth: Stabilise humidity and avoid moving the plant while a new leaf is opening.
- Yellow leaves: Inspect roots for stagnant moisture or compacted substrate before watering again.
- Slow growth: Review temperature, root condition, and stem attachment before changing fertiliser.
Toxicity and handling
Monstera obliqua Peru is toxic if ingested. Chewed leaves or stems can release calcium oxalate crystals that irritate the mouth, throat, and digestive tract.
Monstera obliqua species background
Monstera obliqua was published by Miquel and belongs to the Araceae family. The species epithet obliqua refers to an oblique or uneven form, matching the delicate, irregularly perforated leaves associated with this species.
Stable humidity, warmth and careful watering keep the thin, highly perforated leaves of Monstera obliqua Peru expanding with less damage.
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★★★★★ 5
Unique
Format: Paperback
It’s rare to find a Manga that’s as close as possible to the original storyline, although it’s they’re could be more to come in the future later on other than that it’s a good manga to have in your personal library
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Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Beautiful
Format: Hardcover
A gorgeously written book about a young Palestinian American who finds her voice and identity.
Genre: Upper Middle Grade/Lower YA
-also some magical realism elements: olives cause time travel
Author:Nora Lester Murad
Publisher: Crocodile Books/ Interlink
This beautiful hardcover (the book truly is absolutely gorgeous and I just cant stop staring at it!) tells the story of Ida- a young 13 year old Palestinian American daughter of immigrants. Bullied out of her school due to being Palestinian, Ida struggles to fit in.
But one day, when she eats special olives, she is transported to a new type of multiverse where Ida’s family is still in Palestine.
And by going back and forth, Ida realizes who she wants to be and what her passion in life is.
This gorgeous book truly transported me to Palestine!! The rich descriptions helped me feel grounded in the setting, and I almost felt like I could taste the crackling olives, listen to the adhan of the Mosques, and walk the streets of Palestine. Tbh- as a Syrian myself, I found many parallels with life in Damascus to life in Jerusalem, and it made me fall in love with the book even more.
Juxtaposed with the beauty of the land and the liveliness of the family and community around Ida is the harsh reality of Israeli occupation. The author does not minimize it, she portrays it in the voice of a teenager quite honestly, and her emotional scenes showing Ida helping a young boy and trying to figure out how to save her village and heart-wrenching and emotional.
I also appreciated how nuanced the book was. The occupation is clearly presented as apartheid and wrong, but there is no antisemitism. The author mentions her Jewish background in the author’s note, the book states that there are Jews who support Palestinian rights and Ida sympathizes with Jews who immigrated to America to escape persecution.
I really liked how this book was written- the layers of searching for identity, holding onto your homeland, resisting occupation, and the encouragement for the reader to practice BDS and raise their voices for justice.
Definitely a must read and book I can see be adapted in curriculums for middle schools.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Compelling from start to finish.
Format: Paperback
This is a wonderful book -- no doubt for young adults, but for all the rest of us, too. Here is the review we included in Rethinking Schools magazine: Middle school student Ida tries to sit where she is “unnoticeable, like the dust on last year’s history books.” She seeks to avoid stereotypical insults hurled at her for being from a Palestinian immigrant family. The school’s silence aggravates the problem. Ida notes, “Nobody even says the word ‘Palestine’ in my school. The teachers are afraid to teach anything about the Middle East, even if the topic has nothing to do with politics.” As the mother of three girls raised in the West Bank and now living in the United States, author Nora Lester Murad is deeply grounded in the book’s characters and themes. And she knows how to captivate middle school readers. Ida eats an olive that sends her time traveling from her home in Massachusetts to her family’s home in the West Bank, introducing readers to both the beauty of their village and the violence of the Israeli occupation that eventually forced her family to leave for their safety. This experience gives Ida the courage and conviction to speak in a school assembly about the realities of the occupation, comparing it to what happened to “Indigenous peoples here. How they were pushed off their land and survived so much violence, as if they weren’t human.” Stepping out of the shadows, she insists that students and teachers see her and her family’s humanity.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Couldn't put Ida in the Middle down until the end
Format: Hardcover
Ida in the Middle so vividly captures the point of view of a girl not only sorting out feeling like and being treated like an outsider in a new school, but her relationship with her immigrant parents, her younger and older sister (she is in the middle), and her growing awareness of her family's community in the Middle East. It is is warm novel of feelings, friendship, and the magic transport to the "Its A Wonderful Life" alternate reality of what being in 8th grade would be like if her family had stayed in the village where her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins still live. It is also a novel, like those set in other wartimes, that exposes hard realities. Descriptions of her alternative private school in the US and watching the "Arabs Got Talent" music competition on TV have some of sly wit of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, but the learning that Ida and the reader develop about both the community ties and the danger and dehumanization of checkpoints, home demolitions, and raids takes the book to another level of complexity and empathy for difficult circumstances and choices. Throughout, Ida's viewpoint as a 13-year-old trying to understand the world around her is fresh and appealing. She proves to be an unexpectedly level-headed protagonist as the plot carries her into danger and into new readiness for action. Through the course of the novel, both the reader's and Ida's empathy grows for the desperate situation of Palestinian farmers whose land is under siege (and of all living under occupation), for parents' struggle over the choice to remain out of the country, and for the daily decisions to claim joy and pleasure even if it entails contradictions. Ida left me energized and inspired, and ready to gift this book to the middle-grade kids I know, and also to my teacher friends who keep books in their classrooms for students to read.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2023
★★★★★ 5
A "magical" story of Palestinian life in the West Bank
Format: Hardcover
This young adult novel by Nora Lester Murad focuses on the quandary of a Palestinian-American teenager, Ida, who is learning about American culture while her extended family in the West Bank must cope with Israel’s many policies that discriminate against Palestinians. As Ida ponders how to fit in better at her school and a topic for a school assignment, she is magically transported to the land of her ancestors where she soon finds herself in a difficult situation. The novel explores several aspects of these policies, including the demolition of a friend’s home due to her family’s inability to get a construction permit. In between these difficult situations, there are some twists and turns that remind the reader of the importance of family and friends.
This novel will help to validate the experiences of Palestinian youth who are "caught in the middle" like Ida. Readers of all ages will gain new insights into conditions for Palestinians living in the West Bank and how these pressures impact the daily lives and futures of Palestinian youth. (A teacher’s guide is available, which will be especially helpful for those unfamiliar with the situations described in Ida in the Middle. )
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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2023