Can you post a closeup photo of a single leaf blade (both sides)? I have no idea why but many companies call anything with a leaf that looks similar to a juvenile Monstera a Monstera sp. when many are Asia species from other genera. The internodes between the blades appears to be quite a long distance apart so if you can measure that as well that could help. Another clue can come from the shape of the petiole. Will you take a close look at the stalk that supports a few blades and tell us the shape. It may be round but it can also have a canal or grooves and may even be an odd shape. All these clues help. No insult to Glasshouse but they are very bad at using incorrect names on aroids and this does appear to be an aroid vine. By the way, there are currently only 35 accepted species of Monstera in the world and all come from Central and South America. Dr. Tom Croat at the Missouri Botanical Garden is doing a new paper on the genus and the number will likely jump to 50 but most juvenile forms are not documented and this one is definitely a juvenile. Steve

Thanks a lot again sir/ma'am saltcedar!., your answers makes me more closer to my goal..,the real scientific/common name of the plant...I'm now searching for the specie of the plant., from Urticaceae family....Boehmeria genus ... and the unidentified specie... the only problem is the leaves and flower/seed .. the green to brown spiky flower/seed...uhm., if you find the specie sir.. thanks again., but I'll also do my best to find it... maybe this will help sir.. http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Urticaceae/Boehmeria/ ..... Thanks agaiN!

rhizo_1, it is important to me because it's history that lies as the intersection of the social and the natural, and that's a subject I find fascinating. Call it social-natural history, or call it an anthropology of nature. Your example is perfect: if the name 'Standing Cypress' was in fact given to this plant by a seed company, that should be part of our social history of that plant. I'd love to know that. If such knowledge tells us as much about human beings and human history as about the plant itself, that's great; that would make it something I want to know. I would imagine you're right: finding a single 'origin source' for the name 'Love Lies Bleeding' would be incredibly challenging but that's only to say that it would be an act of anthropology. Historians do detailed research on long-forgotten subjects that we previously had no knowledge of and then reveal to us startling new stories. Is it possible that the origin point of name "Love Lies Bleeding" is "folk etymology" and would therefore be impossible to uncover? You bet it is, but any book/encyclopedia about plant "common name" etymology that would give it a try would be something I'd love to have on my book shelf. Thanks for turning me on to botanical.com and its history of Shepherd's Purse -- that's just the kind of thing I'd like to see more of.

Ha! Let's continue. Think what a beautiful word "honeysuckle" is. In Italian it's "caprifoglio", meaning goatleaf; German has the same name, only translated: "Geissblatt". Similar for "dandelion", from French "dent de lion", "lion's tooth" (who knows why): it got translated in German to "Lowenzahn" (I'm leaving out the German umlaut markers: the double dots over the vowels). Cath's common names are lovely: thank you! A rich source of common names in English is 'Jekka's Complete Herb Book' which I bought a fair number of years ago when I wanted a basic guide to herbs. This is a very satisfying volume, by the way, informative, handy to use, and graphically appealing. Take Lunaria. The English, I understand, call it "honesty"; the American name I've always heard is "money plant". In Italian it's "monete del papa": "the pope's coins". Where the name "honesty" comes from I don't know; all the others refer to the flat silvery seed capsules, which resemble the moon, or silver coins. There are some fine Latin names, too. I wouldn't mind being called Hesperis matronalis myself. But the best botanical name of them all is the generic name of the cocoa plant: Theobroma, "Food of the gods". P.S. Cross post: Virginia, you're right, it does.