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Sold as Pink Princess… but why is she mostly white?🤔
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Sold as Pink Princess… but why is she mostly white?🤔


Hey everyone 🌿

I picked up this plant yesterday at a local plant event here in Jamaica, and it was sold to me as a Pink Princess. But after getting a closer look, I’m honestly not 100% sure that’s what it is.

As you’ll see in the video, most of the leaves are actually white, not pink. The newest leaf has a slight blush tint to it, and some of the older leaves have pink-ish edges, but overall it’s giving more white than anything else.

At first glance, it kind of looks like a White Princess to me, especially based on the stems — but even then, it doesn’t look exactly like the White Princesses I already have, so now I’m just confused 😅

For context, I’m not completely new to philodendrons. Before this, I already had:

• 2 White Princesses

• 1 Pink Princess

• 2 regular Birkins + 1 Pink Birkin

• 1 Brazil

And after this event I added quite a few more to the collection (Golden Goddess, another PPP, White Knight, Punctatas, Prince of Orange, Painted Lady, Red Anderson, etc.), so I’m definitely building things out.

I know care-wise they’re pretty similar, but I’d really like to correctly identify what I have so I can keep track of my collection properly (and not go buying duplicates thinking it’s something new 😭).

Would really appreciate any help — what do you think this is?



by Shereedaci876

17 Comments

  1. Lambchop1975

    It could be faded , but, it is either a mutation or another plant, white princess, or white wizard, would be my guess.

  3. dusti_dearian

    White Wizards have white petioles. That has pink.

  14. imlostineggsaisle

    Don’t worry. It’ll be mostly brown in a few weeks 😂

  15. morgzen

    I am going to go against the grain here and say it’s a red Anderson. I wanna say they are a cross between pink princess and white knight but they tend to have white that leans pink / super pale pink var.

  16. Kelliekitty22

    Could be a white princess but no pink in the stem. They have mostly white variegation and some occasional pink on the leaves. However, the stem is usually white, pink, and green. A white wizard has white and green stems, and the white knight has maroon or reddish stems but the leaves are generally the same. There is a cultivar called Red Anderson that has red stems and petioles and its leaves have white and pink variegation. Its also called the Pink Knight. I think thats probably what you have there. I have a Red Anderson Marble and its similar in colors.

  17. ShoddyProfiles

    OP can we get some more closeup of the stem and petioles? Its such a pretty plant.

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