SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'REGINA RED'

Cultivar

ORIGIN:

Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

Blushing red leaves with olive-green speckles at the margins.¹

NOTES:

1. Raised by self-pollinating 'Pink Allusion'. Chen and colleagues, who call it 'Regina Red Allusion', report that its tissue culture released five further cultivars,⁴ among them the patented 'Confetti'.⁵ Listed among Florida's new cultivars in 2002⁶ and by Agri-Starts today.³

2. Boyce includes it among the selections worth growing.⁷

3. Unconfirmed: The new growth is about 90 percent covered by a reddish pink overlay that becomes more olive with age; a vining plant better suited to totems than the clump-forming 'Neon' types.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. Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida — Syngonium 'Regina Red'

4. Chen, J., Henny, R.J., Devanand, P.S. & Chao, C.T. 2006. AFLP analysis of nephthytis (Syngonium podophyllum Schott) selected from somaclonal variants. Plant Cell Reports 24: 743–749

5. Strode, R.E. 2007. Syngonium plant named 'Confetti'. US Plant Patent PP18,016

6. 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

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

Photo by Agri-Starts, Inc., Apopka, Florida

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