The tree trunks were hidden by climbing ferns and by a white variegated fleshy-leafed pothos.
"Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines"
H. Wilfrid Walker
Among these is the Ursus Americanus, of the black race; a fox; a stag, which perhaps does not differ from the Cervus virginianus, and the common beaver, which feeds on the large leaves of a pothos, said by the inhabitants to be injurious to man.
"A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2"
Otto von Kotzebue
Heliconias, Tillandsias, Bromelias, Ferns, pothos, Cyrtopodiums, Epidendrums, Peperomias, all appeared to struggle for the place which so small a surface afforded to them.
"The Romance of Natural History, Second Series"
Philip Henry Gosse