SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'CONFETTI'

Cultivar

ORIGIN:

Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida (Randall E. Strode); US Plant Patent PP18,016, 2007

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

An erect, symmetrical, dense and freely branching plant whose light green leaves are randomly splashed, flecked and spotted bright pink; the parent 'Regina Red' has solid pink leaves and the similar 'Pink Splash' has green leaves with pink splashes.¹ Agri-Starts describes pink confetti-like speckling over a creamy white leaf on a quick grower that tends to vine under long days.³

NOTES:

1. A whole-plant mutation of 'Regina Red' discovered and selected by Randall E. Strode on 6 June 2003 at Apopka, Florida; US Plant Patent PP18,016 was granted to Agri-Starts, Inc. on 11 September 2007.¹

2. Listed among Florida's commercial cultivars in 2004 with light green leaves, large pink splotches and pink-white veins.² Boyce includes it among the Syngonium selections he considers worth growing.⁴

3. Unconfirmed: 'Milk Confetti' is a whiter version with the same pink spots on a frosted white ground, and 'Tricolor Confetti' adds large dark green sectors.⁵

REFERENCES:

1. Strode, R.E. 2007. Syngonium plant named 'Confetti'. US Plant Patent PP18,016

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. Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida — Syngonium 'Confetti'

4. Boyce, P.C. & Chayamarit, K. Araceae of Thailand: A Pictorial Guide to Indigenous and Cultivated Genera (Syngonium section)

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

Plates from US Plant Patent PP18,016

Syngonium