SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'BOB ALLUSION'

ORIGIN:

Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

A tetraploid selection with large, thick, platter-shaped leaves and vivid pink veins, slower than the diploids but very hardy and well suited to interiors and dish gardens.¹ Compact, and very like 'Bold Allusion' except that the olive coloring extends from the margins into the blade.² Few shoots but the second-largest leaves in the 1993 trial, recorded as green and olive-green with red veins.³

NOTES:

1. An Agri-Starts tissue-culture sport listed among Florida's new cultivars in 2002.⁴

2. Unconfirmed: Hatch gives its origin as a tetraploid of 'Pink Allusion'.⁵

REFERENCES:

1. Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida — Syngonium 'Bob 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. Henley, R.W. & Robinson, C.A. 1993. Nephthytis cultivars to know and grow. Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society 106: 343–347

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

5. 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

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

Photo by In Succulent Love