Monstera deliciosa plant (or just cheese plant), monster fruit, monsterio delicio, monstereo, Mexican breadfruit, windowleaf, balazo, Penglai banana and (inaccurately) split leaf philodendron. The names in Spanish ("costilla de Adán"), Portuguese ("costela-de-adão"), and French ("plante gruyère") refer to the change of the leaves from entire to fenestrated (comparing it in the first two cases with the ribs of Adam and in the third with the hole-filled gruyère cheese). In Mexico, the plant is sometimes referred to as "piñanona". This member of the arum family Araceae is an epiphyte with aerial roots, able to grow up to in the wild high with large,
Actinidia deliciosa the Yangtze River. It is also grown in other areas of China, including Sichuan. In 2010 and 2011, kiwifruit vines worldwide, in Italy, France, and New Zealand, suffered devastating attacks by a bacterial disease caused by "Pseudomonas syringae" pv. "actinidiae", with some of the New Zealand attacks by the virulent strain PSA-V. The disease had first been noticed in Japan in the 1980s, and subsequently in northern Italy (1992) and South Korea. Actinidia deliciosa Actinidia deliciosa, fuzzy kiwifruit or mangüeyo is a fruiting vine native to southern China, the fruit of which has been declared the national fruit of that