Epipremnum pinnatum 'Cebu Blue'

Epipremnum pinnatum 'Cebu Blue' is a highly popular climbing cultivar selected for its glaucous, silver-blue foliage, a colouration rarely seen in aroids and derived from the plant's ancestry in the humid lowland forests of tropical Southeast Asia. Juvenile leaves are narrow and lance-shaped with a blue-silver sheen, while mature climbing specimens develop significantly larger, paddle-shaped leaves that begin to fenestrate and pinnate along the midrib. It is named for its association with Cebu island in the Philippines, where the parent species Epipremnum pinnatum is native. Easy to grow and visually unique.

Native range

Cultivated selection; associated with Cebu, Philippines

Classification

Genus

Epipremnum

Family

Araceae

Type

Cultivar

Growth habit

Climbing viner

Form of

Epipremnum pinnatum

Morphology

Leaf shape

Juvenile: narrow lanceolateLance-shaped leaves that are significantly longer than they are wide, tapering to a point at the tip.; mature: ovateEgg-shaped leaves, with the wider end near the base. to pinnateVeins or lobes arranged like a feather, branching out symmetrically on both sides of a single main central vein.

Leaf length

15-60 cm (mature)

Leaf width

5-25 cm (mature)

Petiole colour

Green

Venation

Subtle midrib

Texture

Glaucous, blue-silver sheen

Variegation

N/A: blue sheen is natural colouration

Growth habit

Vining climber; leaves enlarge with height