I've been doing my research on this one but not really coming up with much. We have a small family business selling houseplants online and at our local weekly farmer's market. We focus on tropicals, mostly aroids, and like to acquire rarer specimens when we can, mostly to keep it interesting for us. It also allows us every once in a while to provide a collector with a cutting they've been trying to find.
Anyway. A local store had these labelled as just "Spath," but based on the plant and leaf size I believe them to be "Sensation." They were about 3 feet tall with leaves over a foot long. This was the only plant with variegation (of course I grabbed it!) but I am not finding any examples of similar variegation (especially the half-moon) for this one. This plant has about 6 variegated leaves in different sizes, and one variegated stem that produced a totally green leaf. I included a photo of the stems but it might be kind of hard to see.
Has anyone seen this type of variegation on a peace lily before? We've only sold the smaller leaved variegated peace lily, I believe it's the "domino."
TL;DR: Variegated Spath? Separate and give her the royal treatment?
by kitty_korner
3 Comments
Def variegated. I would separate and give a royal treatment. Rare / obscure cultivars really make a collection. Can be harder to sell though. It’s much rarer so you ask more, but most people don’t have it on their radar so they don’t end up buying it.
There are several different species and cultivars with veriegation, but I’ve never seen green on green. Just white on green.
I’ve got a similar one with the same leaves as the middle one in picture 2. I’d separate it personally and see if you can re-produce the variegation. If you can relatively consistently it could be pretty profitable since they grow pretty fast, at least mine do