Philodendron erubescens 'Orange Princess'

Philodendron erubescens 'Orange Princess' is a colour-form cultivar in the same 'Princess' line as 'Pink Princess' and 'White Princess'. New leaves emerge bright orange with fine green speckling, then darken as they mature into a mottled bronze, black and rust-red pattern with orange breaking through along the veins. Petioles and stems carry the same deep burgundy flush as the rest of the erubescens 'Princess' cultivars. It grows as a climbing hemiepiphyte and shares the group's tendency to revert to plain green on unstable nodes.

Native range

Cultivated colour-form selection derived from Philodendron erubescens, a species native to Colombia.

Classification

Genus

Philodendron

Family

Araceae

Type

Variegated

Growth habit

Climbing hemiepiphyte

Form of

Philodendron erubescens

Morphology

Leaf shape

Elliptic to narrowly cordateHeart-shaped foliage, featuring a rounded notch (sinus) where the leaf stem attaches.

Leaf length

20-30 cm

Leaf width

10-15 cm

Petiole colour

Burgundy

Venation

Inconspicuous, orange breaking through along veins on mature leaves

Texture

Glossy

Variegation

New growth bright orange with fine green speckling, maturing to mottled bronze, black and rust-red with orange vein breaks

Growth habit

Climbing hemiepiphyteA plant that starts growing in soil but later ascends trees as a climber, supporting itself with aerial roots.