However, the Pothos's leaves split only with age or mistreatment, while Monstera's leaves are deeply dissected from the beginning.

The "deliciosa" in the technical name really means "delicious," because the ripe fruit, which takes about ten months to mature, tastes "very much like pineapple mixed with strawberry," a web page says. I've never eaten a fruit, though it isn't for want of trying. I just haven't managed to be around one when it was ripe.

Here our Monsteras are trying to fruit, as you can see below:

Those are flowering heads, which among the aroids consists of a modified leaf called a spathe partly or entirely enclosing a fingerlike spadix covered with tiny, simple, very closely packed flowers. In the picture we see nothing but spathes. I found many such spathes but none were open. When I forced one open to see what was inside, I found what's shown below:

That shows a spadix apparently rotting instead of developing into a fruit. It looks like our flower heads are aborting before they can do anything. Maybe it's just not the right season or these cool mornings have been too hard on them. Whatever the case, if someday I find a decent Monstera fruit to eat, I'll tell you and show you all about it.