SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'ALBO-VIRENS'

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

A mutant with slender juvenile hastate leaves shaded ivory to greenish white and edged green.¹

NOTES:

1. Unconfirmed: The juvenile blades often have very narrow, almost T-shaped lobes, and the leaves become three-parted with age.²

REFERENCES:

1. Graf, A.B. 1992. Tropica: Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees, 4th edition. Roehrs Company, East Rutherford, New Jersey

2. Hatch, L.C. 2024. Houseplant Cultivars, Volume I, 2nd edition, Syngonium section (after the Report of the Syngonium Working Group, 2nd edition, 2023). Cultivar.org, Cary, North Carolina

Photos from A. B. Graf: Exotic Plants Illustrated p82, 1970; Exotica 4 12th ed. vol. I p293, 1985; Tropica 5th ed. p130, 2003

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