SYNGONIUM 'ALBO-LINEATUM'
CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:
The oldest white-marked arrowhead vine of the trade, sold since the 1870s as Syngonium or Nephthytis albolineatum: juvenile leaves heart-shaped or three-lobed with a silver-white center and veining, the adult leaves palmate and all green.¹
NOTES:
1. Graf treated the plant as Syngonium podophyllum 'Albolineatum' with the remark that its earliest name was angustatum,¹ and Plants of the World Online lists Syngonium albolineatum W.Bull as a synonym of Syngonium angustatum.³
2. Three selections from this plant, 'Daphne', 'Ruth Fraser' and 'Dot Mae', were described by Wood in the 1930s.⁴
3. Unconfirmed: It is generally regarded as the forerunner of 'White Butterfly'.² The white-marked forms of Syngonium angustatum and Syngonium podophyllum have long been confused in gardens, so no species is assigned here.² According to Hatch, the name was first sold by William Bull's nursery in England in 1871, was grown by Verschaffelt and Van Geert in Belgium by 1872, and reached Florida through Henry Nehrling of Orlando, as recorded by W. E. Safford in 1917.²
REFERENCES:
1. Graf, A.B. 1992. Tropica: Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees, 4th edition. Roehrs Company, East Rutherford, New Jersey
4. Wood, A.H. Try These Indoors: A Handbook of Unusual House Plants. Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston (pp. 71–72)
Photos from A. B. Graf: Exotica 4 12th ed. vol. I p293, 1985; Tropica 5th ed. p130, 2003