SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'GREEN GOLD'

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

A vigorous, trailing plant whose juvenile arrow-shaped leaves are suffused and marbled with yellow-green along the primary veins; in the adult stage the foliage becomes large and dissected.¹,²

NOTES:

1. Graf listed the plant as Syngonium podophyllum xanthophilum and later as Syngonium xanthophilum 'Green Gold', treating xanthophilum as a probable variety of Syngonium podophyllum from Mexico.¹ Plants of the World Online sinks Syngonium xanthophilum Schott into Syngonium podophyllum, so the name survives only as a cultivar.³

2. The seed parent of the patented 'Maya Red', which arose from a seedling of a 'Green Gold' plant grown at Mission, Texas.⁴

3. Unconfirmed: Hatch notes that the name Xanthophyllum is used in the trade both for this yellow-veined plant and for a yellow-sectored chimera resembling 'California Gold'.²

REFERENCES:

1. Graf, A.B. 1992. Tropica: Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees, 4th edition. Roehrs Company, East Rutherford, New Jersey

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. Plants of the World Online — Syngonium podophyllum Schott (Syngonium xanthophilum Schott listed as a synonym)

4. Longoria, G.R. 1980. Plant of the Araceae family [Syngonium podophyllum 'Maya Red']. US Plant Patent PP4,514

Photos from A. B. Graf: Exotica 4 12th ed. vol. I p293, 1985; Tropica 5th ed. p130, 2003