Syngonium podophyllum 'White Butterfly'
Arrowhead Vine 'White Butterfly'
Nephthytis or Syngonium podophyllum - Arrowhead plant, or Arrowhead Ivy - is a versatile houseplant, with arrowhead-shaped leaves, sometimes variegated. It has a tendency to creep quietly around your home, and needs a certain amount of maintenance and pruning to keep it in check. All parts of the plant are poisonous. 'White Butterfly' has white leaves with green edges
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Partial shade
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Very little water
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Not Frost hardy
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Light and free draining
Common name
Arrowhead Vine 'White Butterfly'
Latin name
Syngonium podophyllum 'White Butterfly'
type
Vine
family
Araceae
ph
6.0 - 7.5 Acid - Neutral
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
full grown dimensions
Syngonium podophyllum 'White Butterfly'
Nephthytis or Syngonium podophyllum - Arrowhead plant, or Arrowhead Ivy - is a versatile houseplant, with arrowhead-shaped leaves, sometimes variegated. It has a tendency to creep quietly around your home, and needs a certain amount of maintenance and pruning to keep it in check. All parts of the plant are poisonous. 'White Butterfly' has white leaves with green edges
Planting young plants
From Early Spring TO Late Spring
They do pretty well when planted in small pots, however if you are watering more frequently or growth has slowed (and you want more), repot into a bigger pot during Spring using any standard compost mix. The soil should be light and free draining. In sub-tropical cilmates, this vine will grow well in dappled shade given adequate support on which to climb
Propagation by cuttings
From Early Spring TO Late Summer
Propagating a Syngonium is easy peasy. You can root cuttings in water, or straight into potting compost. Both methods have a good success rate - providing you cut the right part of the plant. You want a new growth shoot that either has one or two leaves already, (or the formation of one). Follow the growth shoot downwards several inches until you reach a pair of "nodes", these are a set of two small bumps (one on each side of the stem). The cut needs to be made just a few centimeters below the nodes because this is where the new roots come from