Day: October 17, 2023

#747 They called me Syngonium podophyllum, also known as Syngonium poeppigii, Syngonium ruizii, Syngonium willdenowii, and Syngonium vellozianum var. poeppigii. I pay homage to the male botanists Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Ruiz (I couldn’t find his records), and Carl Ludwig Willdenow, or Carl Ludwig von Willdenow. They first catalogued me in 1851.

Native to Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and Venezuelan Antilles.