SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'CREAM ALLUSION'

Cultivar

ORIGIN:

Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

Branches extensively from the base. The leaves are intermediate in size, silver to light cream with pink veins that are bright pink to almost red in new leaves,¹ the older leaves almost solid cream with bright pink veins and a thin dark margin.² Intermediate habit and leaf size in the 1993 trial, recorded as olive-green with red veins.³

NOTES:

1. Unconfirmed: Hatch reports that 'Gold Allusion' is an improved tetraploid derived from it, and that 'Cream Supreme Allusion' also descends from it in the University of Florida pedigree.⁴

REFERENCES:

1. Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida — Syngonium 'Cream 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. 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 The Green Escape (Etsy)

Syngonium