Pothos Cultivars

Pothos varieties developed at the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, an agricultural and natural resource research program of the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), are licensed by the Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc.  If your company is interested in licensing pothos varieties, please contact Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc.

Pearls and Jade® 'UFM12' (US Patent PP21,217)
Pothos Cultivar

Pearls and Jade® ‘UFM12’ pothos is a small plant compared to other pothos cultivars.  Mature leaves of Pearls and Jade® reach an average of 7-8 cm long and 4-5 cm wide compared to 12 cm by 8 cm leaves on the parent plant ‘Marble Queen’.  Pearls and Jade® leaves display areas of white, gray and green coloration in irregular patches. Color includes blotches, streaks and islands of green,  grayed-green, and white.  Different colored areas vary in size from less then a 1mm dot to large blotches covering over half the leaf surface.  The variegation is visible on both sides of the leaves.  Each leaf varies slightly, typical for most variegation patterns in this genus, but the overall phenotypic effect is a pleasing uniform variegated appearance.  The tops of the stems, where vines are exposed to higher light levels, display a faint, striped effect due to narrow, alternating bands of grayed-green.  This stem coloration blends into the underside of the vine in a similar pattern but with an overall lighter variegation made up of stripes of yellow-green.  Petiole coloration follows the same color and variegation pattern as the stems (vines).  Petiole lengths tend to approximate the attached leaf blade length and range from 3-8 cm.  Internode lengths vary from 2 to 7cm depending on light levels with lower light resulting in longer distances.

In testing, Pearls and Jade® 'UFM12’ pothos performed well at all fertilizer levels, showing no significant differences in any parameters measured.  Overall plant quality averaged between good and excellent.  All plants were above salable quality.  In tests for ability to tolerate the low light levels of interiorscape environments, Pearls and Jade® plants continued to perform well with no loss of foliar coloration and overall plant quality rating of good to excellent after 3 months.

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Where can you obtain plants of Pearls and Jade® 'UFM12' pothos?
FFSP has non-exclusively licensed the following two (2) entities for the propagation of Pearls and Jade® ‘UFM12’ pothos in the territory of the United States for sales into the United States and Canada:

License Availability:  FFSP is currently seeking non-exclusive licensees for the USA and exclusive licensees for other territories not already licensed.  If your company is interested in obtaining a license, please contact FFSP.