SCINDAPSUS 'MOUNT SALAK'
CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:
Medium green leaves dappled with dark green and silver, growing larger as the plant climbs.¹ JOMO Studio, which sells the plant as Scindapsus sp. Gunung 'Mount Salak' and equates it with 'Silver Splash', describes variegation that is dappled rather than streaked, with a much more muted silver.³
VARIEGATED FORMS:
'Janut Kuning', submitted to the IAS Aroid Cultivar Registry by Bachtiar Simanullang as a Silver Splash form from Mount Salak, West Java, has not been accepted.⁴
NOTES:
STATUS - A market name. Not yet accepted by the International Aroid Society. As of September 2026 the IAS Aroid Cultivar Registry holds no record of this name at all - neither accepted nor declined - and there is no plant patent. The name is recorded from nursery and trade sources and is not validly established.
1. Costa Farms gives the origin as Indonesia and does not name a species.¹
2. The name is that of Mount Salak in West Java, the mountain where Backer collected the Scindapsus pictus material with which Alderwerelt showed in 1920 that the broad silver-spotted leaves and the plain oblong ones of Engler's varieties grow on one stem.²
REFERENCES:
1. Costa Farms plant finder: Scindapsus
3. JOMO Studio: The difference between Scindapsus varieties
4. International Aroid Society Aroid Cultivar Registry: Scindapsus search results
Photo by Costa Farms