SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'LEMON LIME'

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

Green foliage with white markings and a short, highly branched, compact habit,¹ the cream-colored veins meeting an interior margin of the same shade, the rest of the leaf medium green.² Clump-forming, with about ten shoots per pot in the 1993 trial, recorded as green and gray-green with yellow-silver veins.³

NOTES:

1. Very well known in the trade by the mid-1990s and never patented; the parent of the patented 'Bob White'.¹

2. Unconfirmed: Hatch treats it as traditionally a synonym of 'Robusta', while noting a trademarked Lemon Lime with a yellow to chartreuse wash.⁴

REFERENCES:

1. Vanderlaan, D.H. 1997. Syngonium plant named 'Bob White'. US Plant Patent PP9,894

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 Vanderlaan's Nursery, 1996