Syngonium plant named ‘Glo-Go’

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2000-04-28

2001-12-18

Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)

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ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Syngonium plant, botanically known as
Syngonium podophylum
, and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name Glo-Go. The new Syngonium is a product of a mutation induction breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Altha, Fla. The objective of the program is to create new fast-growing Syngonium cultivars with compact and non-vining plant habit and attractive leaf coloration and pattern.
The new Syngonium originated by exposing unrooted cuttings of the Syngonium cultivar Robusta, not patented, to gamma-ray radiation from a Cobalt 60 source at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, in Gainesville, Fla., in the fall of 1993. Following the radiation treatment, the cuttings were rooted and plants grown in a controlled environment in Altha, Fla. The new Syngonium was discovered and selected after several selection cycles in September, 1994, by the Inventor as a single plant within this population. The selection of this plant was based on its plant habit, vigor, and attractive leaf coloration and pattern.
Asexual propagation of the new cultivar by tissue culture in Altha, Fla., has shown that the unique features of this new Syngonium plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual propagation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new Syngonium has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity, fertilizer rate, irrigation amount and frequency, and/or propagation procedures without, however, any variance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Glo-Go’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Glo-Go’ as a new and distinct cultivar:
1. Plants of the new Syngonium have a compact, dense, rounded, symmetrical and non-vining growth habit.
2. Plants of the new Syngonium are relatively vigorous.
3. Plants of the new Syngonium are freely branching and begin branching early in their development.
4. Leaves of plants of the new Syngonium have a striking, distinct, and well-defined greenish white pattern on a dark green background. The proportion of greenish white to dark green background coloration decreases as plants of the new Syngonium mature.
Plants of the new Syngonium differ from plants of the parent cultivar Robusta in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Syngonium are fuller, more compact and more symmetrical in growth habit than plants of the cultivar Robusta.
2. Plants of the cultivar Robusta are vining in habit whereas plants of the new Syngonium are not vining in habit.
3. Plants of the new Syngonium are slightly less vigorous than plants of the cultivar Robusta.
4. Plants of the new Syngonium develop branches earlier and are more freely branching than plants of the cultivar Robusta.
5. Leaves of plants of the new Syngonium have a more striking and distinct greenish white pattern than leaves of plants of the cultivar Robusta.
Plants of the new Syngonium can be compared to the Syngonium cultivar White Butterfly, not patented. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Altha, Fla., plants of the new Syngonium differ from plants of the cultivar White Butterfly in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Syngonium are fuller, more compact and more symmetrical in growth habit than plants of the cultivar White Butterfly.
2. Plants of the cultivar White Butterfly are vining in habit whereas plants of the new Syngonium are not vining in habit.
3. Plants of the new Syngonium are less vigorous than plants of the cultivar White Butterfly.
4. Plants of the new Syngonium develop branches earlier and are more freely branching than plants of the cultivar White Butterfly.
5. Leaves of plants of the new Syngonium are darker green and have a more striking and distinct greenish white pattern than leaves of plants of the cultivar White Butterfly.
6. Plants of the new Syngonium have thicker petioles than plants of the cultivar White Butterfly.
Plants of the new Syngonium can be compared to the Syngonium cultivar Pixie, not patented. However, in side-by-side comparisons conducted in Altha, Fla., plants of the new Syngonium differ from plants of the cultivar Pixie in the following characteristics:
1. Plants of the new Syngonium are broader and more vigorous and have a more rapid growth rate than plants of the cultivar Pixie.
2. Leaves of plants of the new Syngonium are larger than leaves of the cultivar Pixie. In addition, leaves of plants of the new Syngonium have longer, non-overlapping lobes, whereas leaf lobes of plants of the cultivar Pixie often overlap.
3. Leaves of plants of the new Syngonium have a more striking and distinct greenish white pattern than leaves of plants of the cultivar Pixie.
4. Plants of the new Syngonium have thicker petioles than plants of the cultivar Pixie.

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