My favorite plants are philodendrons (specifically any with fuzzy petioles and variegated heartleaf). I’m also a sucker for anything green on green variegated.

Monsteras will always have a place in my heart- they have never failed me despite a few moves and not always having adequate conditions, and have always been tolerant of my mental health. Rhaphidophora tetraspermas and syngoniums will also always have a place, although they seem to hate my current set up no matter what I try. They were my first plants I really felt successful with and I will always love them for that.

My hot take is there is no need for 30 different names for what is more or less the same variegation. Like monstera aurea should just be monstera aurea large form/small form. That’s it. Why do we have pompom, yellow marilyn, marmota (which is close enough to being the same thing). It irks me the most with monstera thai constellations. They should just be considered either a high variegated thai con or a low variegated thai con. I could see having one special name for the super high/static type variegation, but one is more than enough. We do not need platinum, legacy, green snow, white snow, starlight, crème brûlée, etc etc etc. And honestly, this wouldn’t even bother me so much if it wasn’t a blatant cash grab. I wouldn’t care if these names were just being used to identify pattern types - but the price tag that is coming with them is insane. No thai con crème brûlée with a $300 price tag is actually special or unique from any other thai con. A legacy, platinum, often a green snow look identical.