SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'ROBUSTA'

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

Broad green leaves with white veins on a plant reluctant to vine.¹ Clump-forming with about 13 shoots per pot in the 1993 trial, recorded as green and gray-green with yellow-silver veins.³

NOTES:

1. The parent of 'Glo-Go', which was induced from it by gamma irradiation and is described as fuller and non-vining where 'Robusta' vines.⁴ Boyce recommends it.⁵

2. Unconfirmed: Large, strong and vigorous, the veins light against fresh green and marked down to the tertiary level.² Proven Winners now sells a plant under the trademark Falling Arrows 'Robust'.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. Henley, R.W. & Robinson, C.A. 1993. Nephthytis cultivars to know and grow. Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society 106: 343–347

4. Osiecki, M.W. 2001. Syngonium plant named 'Glo-Go'. US Plant Patent PP12,282

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

Photo by Plant Thlyl

Photo from Plant Varieties Journal 12(1), Fig. 16, Plant Breeder's Rights Australia, 1999