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heart leaf philodendron vs micans Philodendron MicansWhy the Micans Philodendron is a Must Have Plant The Micans Philodendron is cherished for its soft, velvety leaves and trailing vines. Its dark green to purple leaves offer a unique texture, making it an elegant addition to any indoor space. Perfect for both beginners and seasoned plant parents, this philodendron is easy to care for and adds instant sophistication to your collection. Plant Profile Botanical Name: Philodendron Pronunciation: fil oh DEN
Why the Micans Philodendron is a Must-Have Plant
The Micans Philodendron is cherished for its soft, velvety leaves and trailing vines. Its dark green to purple leaves offer a unique texture, making it an elegant addition to any indoor space. Perfect for both beginners and seasoned plant parents, this philodendron is easy to care for and adds instant sophistication to your collection.
Plant Profile
- Botanical Name: Philodendron
- Pronunciation: fil-oh-DEN-dron
- Common Name: Philo micans, Micans, Velvet-leaf Philodendron, Heart-leaf philodendron
- Family: Araceae
- Native Range: Native to the Caribbean and Mexico
How to Care for Philodendron Micans
- Care Level: Easy
- Light: Prefers bright light for best growth. Avoid direct sunlight as the leaves may burn and dry out quickly.
- Water: Water when soil is dry. Water from above and allow the water to drain out the drainage holes. Avoid over-watering. When underwatered, the leaves will begin to droop.
- Humidity: Appreciates humid environment. Can tolerate average household humidity. Will maintain their best appearance when placed next to a humidifier or in a humid environment during the dry winter months.
- Temperature: 60-75F for optional growth. Avoid cold drafts. Avoid placing next to heating or air conditioning vents.
- Pruning: Prune as needed to remove brown or dead leaves and control growth.
- Feeding: Fertilize with an all-purpose liquid plant food during spring and summer.
- Propagation: Easily propagated from stem cuttings in water or soil
- Growth: Known to be a slow grower
- Pests: Generally not subject to pests. Look out for fungus gnats.
- Toxicity: Toxic to humans and pets
Fun Fact: A Living Velvet
The Micans Philodendron is often called the "velvet leaf philodendron" due to the velvety texture of its leaves. This unique characteristic gives it an almost luxurious, fabric-like feel, setting it apart from other trailing houseplants.
History of the Micans Philodendron: From the Wild to Your Living Room
The Micans Philodendron is a cultivar of Philodendron hederaceum, native to Central and South America. Though the species has been known for centuries, the Micans variety gained popularity among indoor plant enthusiasts in the 1990s, thanks to its appealing, velvet-like leaves and ease of care. Its ability to thrive indoors made it a favorite in modern homes and offices.
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Want to help your Micans Philodendron thrive? Check out our expert-written Philodendron Care Guide for everything you need to know—from watering tips to creating the perfect environment. Your plant will thank you!
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Beautiful Book!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2023
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You can get this online free, but I bought it. Let Fanon turn your brain inside out.
I actually like the idea of supporting a press that is publishing Fanon.
When I was growing up with my dad working with the SCLC and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as part of the night security crew for the summer marches, I was probably more aware than most Americans -- certainly most Americans outside of the black community -- of how much permeability there was between the nonviolent SCLC, and the Black Panther movement, for which Fanon was a seed influence.
Youth in the SNCC organization, the youth group associated with the SCLC, often went back and forth between SNCC and the Panthers as they developed their activist identity and their ideas of how justice might be achieved.
The phrase "by any means necessary" used by the Panthers often scared the bejeezus out of the white community. But when I sat down with my father -- who was an adherent of formal nonviolence -- he handed me Fanon to read, and told me that it was a valid investigation as to whether violence should be considered if nonviolent means were not entertained by the state.
To my dad, who was a peaceful but fiercely justice-oriented man (for those of you who know the idiom "fire of Amos" he had it), he considered that without the counterpoint of the Panthers, MLK would never have gotten a hearing in Washington DC.
Just the idea that there were revolutionaries in American society looking at American "apartheid" and saying, "We are willing to take care of our own if you separate us. We see our situation as that of a post-colonial slavery society and use the model of African liberation as our model. We are willing to be peaceful if we are given justice in peace, but we do not believe that you are acting in good faith and will use whatever means necessary to see you follow your own promises of justice and see justice for our own people if you will not see that done."
That was actually a step down from Fanon. That was actually optimism.
But all white Americans heard out of any of that was: "...by any means necessary." They didn't think of how they were creating the circumstances that might precipitate violence. That whites had created a system that instituted violence to keep slaves, and later free blacks, contained and preserve power and privilege for the white majority.
It is hard for most Americans to even realize that America -- although we became independent from England -- continued as a colonial nation and economy on our own continent and territory. That all the institutions of the repression and destruction of indigenous and imported-slave cultures that happened "over there" in countries that Europeans colonized far from home, we did at home as a break-away colony, and the Europeans who conquered America never relented, compromised, or acknowledged that colonial reality in the way that the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, French, and British Empires did in their colonial domains.
So Fanon is someone worth reading, not only for Africans, or for African-Americans, but for any American or anyone else in the world who wants to better ponder white privilege in America and how it became so very different from colonial privilege as that faded in Africa, through the lens of this Algerian revolutionary philosopher, who so influenced our Panthers.
I remain committed to nonviolence personally, but I understand intensely how MLK and Malcolm balance each other. And how that can actually lead to better peaceful solutions, in a social justice conflict where the status quo has been preserved by judicial and extrajudicial violence by a superior force.
This is still relevant in puppet regimes all over the world. In client states of capitalist powers and of Russia and China. In the conflicts surrounding Israel, and the conflicts throughout the Middle East and Central Asia that are often couched in sectarian terms or sectarian vs secular terms.
It is vital to understanding countries like Zimbabwe or South Africa, where the dynamics of early black leadership as colonial-wannabes are creating environments of corruption and scandal, and robbing their own people.
Everyone should read Fanon. If you can't afford the book here, you can find it online free. This book, and Black Skin, White Masks, both highly recommended.
If you don't like Marxist/Socialist politics, try to suspend disbelief a bit. The philosophy, sociology, and psychology is amazing.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019
★★★★★ 5
The destruction of racism
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This is a very open and candid view of racism in the early 19th century
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Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2026
★★★★★ 5
good read
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classic work on imperialism
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Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2026