SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'FLUTTERBY'

Cultivar

ORIGIN:

Casa Flora, Inc., Dallas, Texas (trademark, 1986; unconfirmed)

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

It had the smallest leaves of the 28 cultivars measured in the 1993 Florida trial, where it was a clump-forming plant with about nine shoots per pot, its foliage recorded as green and gray-green with silver-yellow veins.²

NOTES:

1. Hyndman reported in 1987 a patented Casa Flora cultivar of this name derived from tissue-cultured 'White Butterfly'.³

2. Unconfirmed: Reportedly a compact, dwarf version of 'White Butterfly'.¹ Casa Flora of Dallas, Texas, registered Flutterby as a trademark in 1986; the mark was cancelled in 2007.¹ Casa Flora's only Syngonium patent is 'Angelwing' of 1987, so the two names may belong to one plant.¹

REFERENCES:

1. 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

2. Henley, R.W. & Robinson, C.A. 1993. Nephthytis cultivars to know and grow. Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society 106: 343–347

3. Hyndman, S.E. 1987. The advantages of tissue culture for the aroid collector. Aroideana 10(3)

Photo from Plant Varieties Journal 6(1), Fig. 13, Plant Breeder's Rights Australia, 1993

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