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Aglaonema pictum 'Tricolor'
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Aglaonema 'Red Valentine'
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Aglaonema 'Siam Aurora'
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Aglaonema 'Sparkling Sarah'
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Aglaonema 'Silver Bay'
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Aglaonema 'Pink Dalmatian'
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Aglaonema 'Red Anjamani'
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Aglaonema 'Lady Valentine'
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Aglaonema 'Prestige'
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Aglaonema 'Red Peacock'
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Aglaonema 'Emerald Beauty'
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Aglaonema commutatum
Chinese Evergreen
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Aglaonema commutatum Morphology
About Aglaonema commutatum
Chinese Evergreen has long been a fixture of offices and shopping centres thanks to its unmatched tolerance for low light, dry air, and inconsistent care. Its lance-shaped leaves carry silvery-grey mottling along the veins, giving even the plain species a decorative, hand-marbled look without any variegation instability to manage. In its native Southeast Asian understorey it grows beneath a dense forest canopy, which is exactly the low-light logic that makes it thrive metres away from a window indoors. It grows slowly into a dense clump of upright cane-like stems and, unlike many aroids, rarely needs staking or support.
Native Range
Philippines
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Before You Buy
Species-specific things to check when evaluating a listing
- Inexpensive and common; be wary of pricing implying rarity for the plain species
- This peerFamily group includes a dozen similarly-shaped Aglaonema cultivars; confirm the listing shows plain silvery-grey vein mottling, not a colour cultivar mislabelled as commutatum
- Check leaf undersides for mealybugs, which favour Aglaonema's dense cane growth
- Look for multiple upright canes rather than a single stem for a fuller specimen
Understorey Logic, Indoors
Commutatum's silvery-grey mottling isn't variegation in the unstable, chimeric sense. It's a fixed vein trait of the species, which is why it never reverts or needs bright light to hold its pattern. That fixedness also explains its tolerance for shade: in its native Philippine and Sulawesi understorey it grows under a closed canopy, metres from any direct sun, so the low-light conditions that would stress most houseplants are simply home for this one. It's the plainest-looking plant in its own peerFamily group of a dozen Aglaonema cultivars, but also the most forgiving.
