Scindapsus 'Snake Scale Tricolor'

Snake Scale Tricolor layers cream, mint, and silver variegated patches on top of the plain cultivar's distinctive raised, reptile-scale leaf texture, breaking up the scale pattern with genuine colour variation rather than leaving it a solid tone. The combination of tactile relief texture and multi-tone variegation makes it one of the more visually complex Scindapsus in current circulation. As with any chimeric sport, variegation coverage and colour balance vary from cutting to cutting.

Native range

Variegated mutation of Scindapsus 'Snake Scale'.

Classification

Genus

Scindapsus

Family

Araceae

Type

Variegated

Growth habit

Trailing/climbing vine

Form of

Scindapsus 'Snake Scale'

Morphology

Leaf shape

Elongated ovateEgg-shaped leaves, with the wider end near the base.

Leaf length

8-14 cm

Leaf width

5-9 cm

Petiole colour

Green

Venation

Subtle, obscured by scale texture and variegation

Texture

Raised, overlapping reptile-scale relief pattern

Variegation

ChimericVariegation caused by a cell mutation. Often produces high contrast but can be unstable and revert to all-green. (unstableVariegation that is prone to disappearing (reverting to solid green) if lighting conditions are poor or if not pruned.) cream, mintVariegation featuring a speckled, marbled, or light pastel-green pattern., and silver variegated patches breaking up the scale-textured dark green base; propagates true only from a cutting taken at a variegated node

Growth habit

Trailing/climbing vine