Philodendron can be shrubs, trees or climbers, with glossy, leathery, evergreen, simple to pinnately divided leaves, and tiny flowers borne within arum-like white, green or reddish spathes
P. scandens is an evergreen root-climber to 4m in height, with slender-pointed, heart-shaped glossy green leaves to 30cm in length, smaller on juvenile plants. Mature plants may produce green and white flower spathes 15cm in length