SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'BERRY ALLUSION'

Cultivar

ORIGIN:

Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

Selected for its prolific suckering, a self-heading plant that fills a pot as well as any Syngonium on the market and is among the fastest growers through winter.¹ In 2004 it was described as white fading to green from the center of the leaf, with light red veins.²

NOTES:

1. One of the tissue-culture sports released by Agri-Starts and listed among Florida's new Syngonium cultivars in 2002.⁴

2. Unconfirmed: Hatch distinguishes two plants under the name, the older retail stock heavily suffused berry pink over a white overlay and the current Agri-Starts offering a yellowish cream with a thin berry-pink midrib.³

REFERENCES:

1. Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida — Syngonium 'Berry Allusion'

2. Chen, J., McConnell, D.B. & Everitt, K.C. 2005. Cultural guidelines for commercial production of interiorscape Syngonium. University of Florida IFAS Extension ENH 993 / EP244

3. 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

4. Chen, J., Henny, R.J. & McConnell, D.B. 2002. Development of new foliage plant cultivars. In: Janick, J. & Whipkey, A. (eds), Trends in New Crops and New Uses. ASHS Press, Alexandria, Virginia

Photo by Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

Syngonium