Aglaonema 'Red Valentine'

Red Valentine is one of the most widely sold colour Aglaonema hybrids, with large ovate leaves heavily speckled in bright red and pink over a green base. Like most modern Aglaonema colour cultivars, it comes out of commercial Thai and Filipino breeding programmes that rarely publish exact cross records, so it's best treated as a named hybrid selection rather than a documented sport of any single wild species. It shares the genus's famously tough constitution, genuinely one of the most forgiving colourful houseplants available.

Native range

Commercial Thai/Filipino Aglaonema breeding line hybrid; exact parentage not publicly documented.

Classification

Genus

Aglaonema

Family

Araceae

Type

Hybrid

Growth habit

Clumping, cane-forming

Morphology

Leaf shape

OvateEgg-shaped leaves, with the wider end near the base.

Leaf length

15-25cm

Leaf width

8-14cm

Petiole colour

Pink-red

Venation

PinnateVeins or lobes arranged like a feather, branching out symmetrically on both sides of a single main central vein.

Texture

Semi-glossy, leathery

Variegation

Dense speckling of bright red and pink spots over a green leaf base

Growth habit

Upright clumping canes