Oak Park Conservatory groups ("Cereus", "Opuntia", and "Pereskia"), plus succulents including "Agave", "Crassula", succulent euphorbias, "Gasteria", "Haworthia", and "Kalanchoe". Woody plants in this room include olive, etrog, fig, date palm, bay and pomegranate. The conservatory's orchids and ferns collection holds orchids, Australian tree ferns and other tropic and sub-tropic fern species, as well as begonias, "Clivia", Ponderosa lemon, sea grape, "Strelitzia reginae", and "Syzygium". The rainforest collection includes "Anthurium", aroids, banana, cycads, dracaenas, ferns, fig trees, "Monstera deliciosa", palms (lady, fishtail, fan, and Canary Island date), papaya, "Peperomia", "Pilea", spider plants, as well as a pond with koi, goldfish, and turtles. In addition
Monstera deliciosa seeds fall to the ground, then the seedlings crawl (negative phototropism) until they meet a tree on which to attach. The many adjacent roots thus allow the plant to anchor against its new support and reach the canopy light (although it rarely grows in full sun and prefers a light dimmed by the foliage). Wild plants can also be found in North America (Florida), Asia (Malaysia, India), Australia and the western Mediterranean (Portugal, Morocco, Madeira). The plant requires a lot of space and a rich and loose soil (ideally garden soil and compost in equal parts). If it grows in