SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'GOLD ALLUSION'

ORIGIN:

Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

A compact, full plant with intermediate, arrow-shaped leaves of brilliant, almost iridescent golden yellow set off by prominent pink-red veins.¹ Intermediate habit with coarse leaves in the 1993 trial, recorded as yellow-green with red veins.²

NOTES:

1. Unconfirmed: Hatch describes it as a tetraploid from 'Cream Allusion', the young plants pale green to lime with a five-pointed star of golden cream along the midrib and basal veins.³

REFERENCES:

1. Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida — Syngonium 'Gold Allusion'

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. 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