Philodendron 'Burle Marx' is a beautiful, low-growing cultivar. Grows as a shrub or vine that has shiny bright green, elongated heart-shaped leaves and reddish stems. It grows in clumps an van be train to trail or climb. Named after Roberto Burle Marx. Burle Marx was the first architect to use native plants in modern landscape designs.

form the Modern Latin genus name Philodendron (Schott, 1830), form Greek philodendron, neuter of philodendrons "loving trees," form philo- "loving" (see philo-) + dendron "tree" (form PIE *der-drew-, form root *deru- "to be firm, solid, steadfast," also forming words for "wood, tree"). The plant so called because it clings to trees.