Hi All! I am newly getting involved in indoor plants and I recently purchased these two from the store and have no idea what species/variety they are. The first plant is supposedly a dracaena and the second is a pathos. Please help! Thanks so much :)
The first one looks like Dracaena fragrans 'Lemon Lime' (syn. Dracaena deremensis 'Lemon Lime'). Not sure about the second. Perhaps it is a pothos: Epipremnum aureum, pothos not philodendron, Epipremnum aureum (Linden & André) G.S. Bunting,Pothos, Rhaphidophora aurea, Scindapsus aureus, Pothos, Giant Golden Pothos, "Ivy", Devil's Ivy, Devil's Claw Ivy, Exotic Rainforest rare tropical plants.
Thanks so much for your help Junglekeeper! I tried to look up images of different pothos varieties but most of the leaves on my plant seem so variable (mostly full green leaves and a select few leaves with some yellow spotting patterns) that I am not confident in identifying or even ruling out several of the varieties. As this plant grows larger, I am curious if leaf variation patterns become more consistent for identification of a specific variety?
It appears so as the referenced document explains. One of its links points to another document that expounds on the subject of natural variation and ontogeny: Natural variation within Aroid and other plant species. Exotic Rainforest rare tropical plants.
What it really looks like to me is an Epipremnum aureum cultivar called 'Jade' which is having a few leaves revert back to the typical yellow and green variety. All of the epipremnum cultivars are sports of the original plant that were then reproduced to keep the certain color, variegation, or leaf form going. But they can and do revert sometimes...I have Neon that sometimes gets a few variegated leaves (photo 1). Mostly the cultivar most people have in there yards here are either the plain form (photo 2) or the yellow and green variety (photo 3), the leaves do get very large if it is allowed to climb, and they will also begin to pinnate.
This is one of the weirdest Epipremnums out there...its called 'Witch's Hat'. No one in the US has grown one to maturity yet, it will be really cool to see what it does when it is mature
