SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'NEON ROBUSTA'
ORIGIN:
Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida (Randall E. Strode); US Plant Patent PP18,013, 2007
CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:
An upright, symmetrical, densely bushy and freely branching plant with iridescent pink upper leaf surfaces, brighter than its parent 'Neon' and more compact and more intensely pink than 'Regina'.¹ Light green foliage tinged rosy pink, to about 30 cm tall with vining branches to 60 cm as a houseplant.² Agri-Starts calls it the brightest pink Syngonium available.³
NOTES:
1. A branch mutation of 'Neon' discovered and selected by Randall E. Strode on 6 June 2003 at Apopka, Florida, and propagated by tissue culture; US Plant Patent PP18,013 was granted to Agri-Starts, Inc. on 11 September 2007.¹
2. Unconfirmed: Hatch proposes the spelling 'Neon Robust', arguing that a Latin-form epithet published after 1959 is not acceptable under the cultivated plant code; the patent and the trade use 'Neon Robusta'.⁴
REFERENCES:
1. Strode, R.E. 2007. Syngonium plant named 'Neon Robusta'. US Plant Patent PP18,013
2. Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder — Syngonium podophyllum 'Neon Robusta'
3. Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida — Syngonium 'Neon Robusta'
Plates from US Plant Patent PP18,013