Hi Kim,



It is a very common mistake b/c they both have the same heart-leaved foliage, vine, and do well in low light. They are closely related. Did you know you can take a cutting of either (pothos works better) just below a leaf node (where leaf meets stem), stick it in water and it will root? They can survive that way indefinitely so long as you change the water, feed it occasionally, make sure the water doesn't get slimy and pull off dead roots as needed and keep it out of diret sun. So now you never have to buy another pothos!



lele



>>Well...after allllllllll these years I've learned that philodendron and pothos are NOT the same!

>>Thank God I never fed philodendron to my skink!!! Who knows what would of happened to her...especially with the quantity that she goes through!!

>>It's weird, because my mom and I were discussing these plants just today! I was bugging her to hand over all her pothos, so I can have them for Dill. She called them philodendron too. (actually...now that I think about it...that's probably where I "learned" that from in the first place! No one tell my kids that mothers don't actually know EVERYTHING!!)

>>I am posting a pic of each of them, just in case anyone else is interested.

>>POTHOS

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>>PHILODENDRON

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>>Kim

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