i'm james and welcome to another exciting video where i'm going to be giving you some tips on
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in the spirit of trailing thursdays today's video is going to be about the ever so popular bang the
pothos i'm going to be talking about why australia is so darn confused about the types of pothos
varieties out there that says epipremnum aureums epiprenum epiprenum aureum snow queen pothos
premium it's a mouthful bloody heck meanwhile i'll watch my furniture levitate in a hot minute
super quick shout out to my friend jessie who actually gifted me this amazing plant she's an
amazing youtuber who drops regular content i'll leave some timestamps in the description box if
you want to skip but if you want to sit through the great debate on why australia is so confused
about the types of pothos varieties out there stay tuned because it's going to be a bumpy ride ahead
simply put epipremnum aureum is the botanical name whereas the pothos is the more common name that we
use for the houseplant world the epipranam aurium originated in french polynesia probably somewhere
i'd rather be right now judakovit actually locking us down here for so long fun fact it's actually
declared invasive to some states in the u.s such as florida and hawaii and it has swallowed
forests in sri lanka wow there's a really long and interesting story that i read online about
the whole history about the naming conventions and if you do want to see that i'll leave a link
in the description box because i know everyone doesn't want a history lesson right now now
here's a really amazing illustration that i had special permission to use of irene illustrations
which shows you at a high level um what the types of epipremnum are basically this shows
you the scindapsus and epipremnum varieties but for the purpose of this video i'm going to
remove the skin abscesses out of the next image just so we can zoom in on the types of pothos
that are out there in the market the obvious caveats are that this is not an extensive list
but rather just a quick snapshot there are so many varieties out there that could make
it really confusing now i'm going to explain to you the differences in some of the common
varieties so just a disclaimer i'm going to explain to you the types of pothos in
an australian context because in the rest of the world it will be different namely the one that you
see right here is labelled as snow queen but say in the us it'll be labeled an enjoy the snow queen
or the enjoy which is the one that i personally have is distinguished by green and white leaves
they do look a little bit blotchy and i'll give you a quick close-up on the camera but essentially
a pearls and jade looks like an enjoy but sprinkle some speckles on the top arguably people will tell
you that the snow queen is the same as a pearls and jade rather that the pearls and jade is
rather a mutation from the snow queen but let me know what you think in the comments below
the manjula could be a combination of the two the main characteristics are they quite oval and round
whereas the marble queen the one that i have to my right here is green with creamy white variegation
after crawling the interwebs i'm led to believe that people in the u.s are calling a marble queen
a snow queen that is predominantly white in color i mean i have a few leaves that could pass over
as what they consider a snow queen in the u.s on my marble queen that you see here so i think this
could be true again let me know what your thoughts are on the topic the other types that you'll see
in your stores include the neon which is neon or green or yellow for obvious reasons jade
which is green and finally the golden pothos which is green and yellow one more tip is remember that
sometimes these nurseries or big hardware stores combine some of these species together so that'll
probably confuse you even further but don't worry hopefully i've explained that well enough for you
to understand and identify them next time you see them at your nurseries or your hardware stores
is it a snow queen is it a marble queen no it's an enjoy what better way to start off trailing
thursday with the great debate on what the hell have i just bought from the hardware store the
funny part is i didn't even know i was confused until i started browsing the different types of
pothos varieties out there and that there was such a massive range so what is causing this confusion
first we have different naming conventions in australia as opposed to the rest of the world
then throw in the fact that the patterns on your pathos can morph into different ones and vary over
time and second the plant you'll purchase will sometimes be a combination of the two
so i conducted a quick social media experiment yesterday where i put up a poll asking people
to identify the plant whether it was snow queen or an enjoy as you can see from the results here
we've got 53 thinking it was a snow queen and 47 thinking it was an enjoy so that's about 50 50
if you kind of average those out right so i just want to show you another social media experiment
that i conducted on sippers which is the crazy indoor plant people of australia which has 149
000 members if you go to the search bar uh and type in snow queen you'll see that there
is a lot of confusion here um i'll just quickly highlight a post that for example
that i've seen before in particular around is this a snow queen up top with a marble queen below
apologies for the terrible quality image i save this direct from the post but from a us context
i believe they'd call this a pearls and jade due to the speckling of the leaves however some
in australia would still deem it a snow queen and rather a mutation from it regardless i would love
to hear your thoughts so here are some videos and photos i took on one of my planned expeditions to
bunnings australia about a year ago back then we had a decent amount of stock with variety of pop
boss for a reasonable price of 12 and i was there trying to decide between the marble queen or the
snow queen that day these were my final selections and i ended up taking two of the snow queens home
here you can see me panning this beautiful specimen my favorite part was this singular
white leaf that surrounded the green strip in the middle sadly that leaf died maybe
a week later oh well here's a kick up you can clearly see the information here says
epipremnum snow queen also known as frosty frosty now i'm getting even more confused
anyway i've also heard other pothos names online such as the marble prince money plant in india
and the glacier pothos in the usa i think i'm now more officially confused after making this video
when i was doing some more research i stumbled upon this website called garden tags which
essentially identify some of the types of plants they've labelled it as an epipremnum snow queen
and then i took the liberty of emailing them just to clarify i'll keep you posted
on what they reply with so now i'm even more confused but regardless i'm enjoying it anyway
thank you guys so much for watching this video i'd really love to hear a few of your stories
in the comment section below on whether you encountered sort of the same experience i
mean does this happen in other countries is it just australia or is it in general everywhere
have i got it completely wrong because i do really want to hear your thoughts about
the topic or maybe you just don't care they're beautiful regardless as soon as
i hear back from garden tags i'll update the description box with what they replied to me
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