Philodendron 'Golden Dragon'

Philodendron 'Golden Dragon' is a narrow-lobed hybrid grown for its deeply cut, almost skeletal leaves and their bright, luminous chartreuse-gold colouring. Each blade is divided into slender, pointed segments radiating from the midrib, giving the foliage a delicate, almost fern-like silhouette quite unlike the broad, solid leaves of most Philodendrons. As a climber it will produce progressively larger and more deeply lobed leaves given a support to scale, and the sustained golden colouring under bright light sets it apart from similarly-lobed green cultivars.

Native range

Horticultural hybrid selected from deeply-lobed Philodendron breeding lines.

Classification

Genus

Philodendron

Family

Araceae

Type

Hybrid

Growth habit

Climbing hemiepiphyte

Morphology

Leaf shape

Deeply pinnatifidFoliage deeply lobed in a feather-like pattern, but not cut all the way to the central vein., narrow lobes

Leaf length

20-35 cm

Leaf width

15-25 cm

Petiole colour

Green

Venation

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

Texture

Semi-glossy

Variegation

N/A

Growth habit

Climbing on aerial roots