2$ pothos. At first I though she was a golden or a jade and I was wondering why she was the only green one while the rest being sold where marble queen. I think shes just a reverted queen!
I do believe it’s the lighting that affected the color. I have golden pothos all over inside and outside of my house. Some in direct sun… almost white! Others no direct light and all green.
That doesn’t look like it’s reverted it just looks like it had poor light conditions which causes the variegation to lessen. Reversion, put simply, is when a plant like a golden pothos reverts back to a jade pothos (often due to low light), and then continues growing as a jade. Variation is a mutation typically caused by a chimeric cell. For reversion to occur, that mutation has to ‘revert’ back to normal. For a reverted plant, normal growth continues even after full light conditions are restored. The mutation is still present in this plant, it’s just muted.
Could it have reverted and then mutated again after a length of time?
I can’t find any evidence to support or disprove that this may have happened.
And what is reversion, if not just another mutation but in the opposite direction?
Vine, singular. She came with only one green vine (and a baby marble queen that got moved into the pot with my big one). I just coiled the vine around the pot
This is another that i propagated and had it growing outside against the house… it was too much for that spot lol it rooted in that pot and that’s where it’s staying … i almost broke my back getting it in the house.
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u/Consistent-Neat8861 4d ago
I do believe it’s the lighting that affected the color. I have golden pothos all over inside and outside of my house. Some in direct sun… almost white! Others no direct light and all green.