Guess what I saw while I was at World Farm buying some plants?
I saw a Syngonium fruiting as I looked up a traveller’s palm located near the sales counter. Some red berries were spotted on this rather adventurous Syngonium vine.
This aroid adopts a vining habit. Only in a mature specimen will it possess those 5 lobed leaves. Syngoniums are interesting plants, as they grow, their leaf shape evolves from an arrowhead to a deeply lobed leaf that looks somewhat like a palm.
We always associate this plant as a little potted plant that is often sold as an indoor plant in the nurseries. Occasionally we see them being trained up a moss pole. As they grow, many people find them a nuisance as they grow out of shape with the vines trailing all over. We don’t often see them in flower or fruit in the home setting.
Probably we now know why. The plant really needs to get quite big, judging from the height of the traveller’s palm which this mature syngonium has managed to climb up!
