Thanks!
Oh actually the little scindapsus came recently from a very mature plant that sits in a shaded area and has dark leaves, but my cuttings were taken from the most recent growth of the plant, and they were even lighter when I got them. This is a north faced window, with a building right in front of it. I'm only keep the scindapsus there until it roots

And the pothos came from inside a mall ( I asked for permission to take the cuttings) It was bright I guess, never thought it was that bright! haha. Thanks!

The green color of your Pothos is very pale, which is usually the case in light too strong for the plant, but no way would that be the case inside a mall. So this is a bit of a puzzle.

Your plant could be the less variegated form of Marble Queen which has mixed white variegation on a green leaf. The other form is highly variegated with just a scattering of green, obviously not your plant.

Russ

A Plethora of Pothos Varieties

This link goes to a guide to different pothos cultivars. Marble Queen is patented, so there should only be one, but I suspect its appearance changes with different amounts of light because I've never actually seen a MQ with as much yellow as their pic shows. The ones in the stores here have pure mottled white variegation, not at all yellow.

Personally, I have golden and manjula. Manjula burns to a crisp given any amount of natural light (12 feet away from the window in a morning-bright room? still burned), but it does nicely under a lamp. Golden, meanwhile, survives anywhere indoors with any non-zero amount of light.

(A side note on malls, I haven't been in one in 15 years, but I remember the upper story being flooded with full sun from massive skylights--a far cry from the dim murk of the mall I hung out in in the 80s. I'm guessing the architecture varies?)

Hi Sage, I know many of the newer varieties of Epipremnum, such as Pearls and Jade, N'Joy, etc, have been patented, and one recent abberrant type of Marble Queen patented by Heeyoung Kim. But the original Marble Queen goes back to at least the early '50s and any patent would be long expired. .

I don't think the two clones of Marble Queen I've observed and grown are affected by the amount of light, they seem to distinctly be either mostly white, or mostly green with up to 50% white variegation. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if the nearly all-white clone sometimes produces the contrasty green and white type, but probably not the other way around.

I've noticed that Manjula and the other abberrant varieties are susceptable to a fungus that turns variegated areas black, usually starting from the edge of the leaf. It also can affect both clones of Marble Queen. I assume your instances of burning are not this fungus since leaves aren't affected once you move it under a lamp.

I agree with you about some malls being much brighter these days.

Russ