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from Architectural Digest<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside the Digital Marketplace Where Rare Plants Sell For $9,000<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to MonsteraX, the eBay of rare and variegated plants 🌱<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Rae Witte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The backyard patio of this midcentury-modern LA house features a bustling community of plants.<\/a> Photo: Ye Rin Mok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since the early days of isolation, the rare plants market has surged, following in the footsteps of the sneaker market with resellers reporting prices jumping from under $100 to hundreds and thousands of dollars,<\/a> unregulated marketplace scammers,<\/a> and requiring lots and lots of research. The simple days of bringing a local nursery staple snake plant or ubiquitous fiddle leaf home seem to be over as more people obsess over collecting these scarce breeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After losing his mother, Manny Lorras took over the care of her cat and her collection of rare plants. Once a child who begrudgingly tagged along with both parents to flower shows and was given gardening-related chores, Manny found comfort in tending to his newly acquired plant family. \u201cI learned how to rehab these orchids that she had, some snake plants, and more of the traditional houseplants, and I got really into it,\u201d Manny says.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a trip to a local plant store near his home in Brooklyn that really threw his interest into overdrive though. \u201cThere was this massive plant that was almost five feet tall, had these really bright pink leaves, and I thought it was super cool. I was like, \u2018What is this? This is so strange,\u2019\u201d he recalls. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a lot going on, given it was the early days of COVID. I bought it and spent what I thought was a lot of money for a plant at the time: $500.\u201d This turned out to be a\u00a0variegated plant,<\/a>\u00a0which presents multicolored (thus, pink) due to a mutation that results in the absence of chlorophyll.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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