SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'BOLD ALLUSION'

Cultivar

ORIGIN:

Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

Large, cordate, cream-colored leaves splashed olive at the margins and veined pink.¹ Few shoots and intermediate leaf size in the 1993 trial, recorded as olive-green and gray-green with red veins.³

NOTES:

1. An Agri-Starts sport listed among Florida's new cultivars in 2002,⁴ and one of the four cultivars named in the North Carolina Extension plant toolbox.⁵

2. Unconfirmed: In young plants the blades are very wide, the new growth almost wholly pinkish cream with richer pink veins, the margins slowly mottling green.² A tetraploid derived from 'Pink Allusion' according to Hatch.²

REFERENCES:

1. 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

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

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. North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox — Syngonium podophyllum

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

Photo by Gabriella Plants

Syngonium