Delicious Monster plant

Has any one else come across ths plant? Also known as Ceriman, Swiss Cheese Plant (or just Cheese Plant), Fruit Salad Plant, Monster fruit, Monsterio Delicio, Monstereo, Mexican Breadfruit, Monstera, split-leaf philodendron, Locust and Wild Honey or Windowleaf (as per Wikepedia)

Friends of ours overseas had a huge plant growing in their backyard and on eating the fruit we found out by it was called a Delicious Monster. We had some plants but we never got fruit off them. I wish it could be grown over here in the UK as it is a nice looking plant.

 

How large would it grow? I suppose that as a house plant it will never fruit. :cry: love the fruit.

 

Thanks Marley - that was great. You just keep learning here.

I have seen them a number of times as a house plant, but I had no idea that they grew so big or had huge fruits. It reminds me of Victoria and her 8 feet high Poinsettias. We can get a distorted view of exotics sometimes.

 

We had one a few years ago which I grew up the wall and across the ceiling in the living room. It MUST have been about 18ft overall.:gnthb:

 

I've heard of them producing fruit very occasionally in office buildings.
But I never grew one long enough to get any myself.

 

When I looked after the Palm House here years ago we regularly had Breadfriuts and Bananas both edible. They taste ok but nothing really special. They can fruit in large planted displays in large offices but need a lot of light and humidity. Due to their climbing nature they tend to grow at an angle making them awkward house plants.

 

Marley, it never flowered in all the years we had it.:gnthb:

 

I've seen them growing very big where they were happy, bit I've never seen them fruiting.
These days I just grow what I know will grow. I don't see the point in struggling to grow plants out of their environment.
Just be happy that you had the chance to see them and enjoy them in their own environment.