Amydrium medium Aurea

Marketed as 'Silver Aurea': a cooler, more silvered cast to the gold sectors than a typical warm-toned Aurea break. Amydrium medium Aurea shares the same underlying form and growth habit as Amydrium medium (pedate leaves deeply divided almost to the base into narrow, sharply pointed lobes, climbing with slender, internoding stems), with silvery gold-yellow sectoral variegation across the solid, deeply lobed climbing leaf, sold in the trade as 'silver aurea'.

Native range

Aurea colour-break cultivar of Amydrium medium, Southeast Asia / Malesia

Classification

Genus

Amydrium

Family

Araceae

Type

Variegated

Growth habit

Climbing Liane

Form of

Amydrium medium

Morphology

Leaf shape

Pedate, deeply divided almost to the base into 3-5 narrow, lance-shaped lobes with sharply pointed tips radiating from a single point atop the petiole; juvenile leaves are simple and ovateEgg-shaped leaves, with the wider end near the base.. Lobes are solid at the size typically seen in cultivation; only very mature, high-light specimens may eventually show occasional elongated perforations near the midrib.

Leaf length

Variable, large

Leaf width

Variable

Petiole colour

Green, unaffected by leaf variegation

Venation

Distinctive reticulate venation with prominent veins

Texture

Coriaceous

Variegation

chimericVariegation caused by a cell mutation. Often produces high contrast but can be unstable and revert to all-green. silvery gold-yellow sectoral variegation

Growth habit

Climbing with slender, internoding stems