SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM 'RUTH FRASER'

ORIGIN:

C. Fraser (introduction from 'Albo-lineatum', per Wood)

CULTIVAR DESCRIPTION:

A sport of 'Albo-lineatum' with smaller, more graceful leaves than the type, the white variegation covering 80 to 90 percent of each leaf.¹ Graf pictured it in the 1960s.²

NOTES:

1. One of the introductions of Mr. C. Fraser, with 'Daphne' and 'Dot Mae', all raised from 'Albo-lineatum'.¹

2. Unconfirmed: Hatch knows of no plants or images today and thinks it may be lost.³

REFERENCES:

1. Wood, A.H. Try These Indoors: A Handbook of Unusual House Plants. Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston (pp. 71–72)

2. Graf, A.B. 1963. Exotica 3: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants, 7th edition. Roehrs Company, Rutherford, New Jersey

3. 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

Photos from A. B. Graf: Exotica 3 7th ed. p235, c. 1973; Exotica 4 12th ed. vol. I p293, 1985