SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'NEON'

Cultivar

ORIGIN:

Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

Solid bright pink leaves,¹ the broad arrow-shaped new growth almost wholly pink over an olive-cream ground and slowly fading to green tinged cream, without the green marginal mottling of the Allusion series.

NOTES:

1. An Agri-Starts sport listed among Florida's new cultivars in 2002,³ and the parent of the patented 'Neon Robusta', against whose brighter pink the patent compares it.⁴ Boyce recommends it.⁵

2. Unconfirmed: The name has become a collective one for pink-leaved plants not assignable to other cultivars.²

REFERENCES:

1. 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

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. Chen, J., Henny, R.J. & McConnell, D.B. 2002. Development of new foliage plant cultivars. In: Janick, J. & Whipkey, A. (eds), Trends in New Crops and New Uses. ASHS Press, Alexandria, Virginia

4. Strode, R.E. 2007. Syngonium plant named 'Neon Robusta'. US Plant Patent PP18,013

5. Boyce, P.C. & Chayamarit, K. Araceae of Thailand: A Pictorial Guide to Indigenous and Cultivated Genera (Syngonium section)

Photo by Little Prince of Oregon Nursery

Photo by Foliage Factory

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