They're not all pothos! But accepted as such sometimes

Please don't further the misidentification of Epipremnum as 'Pothos'. Botanists and Taxonomists have been fighting for YEARS to correct this misnaming.
Using 'common names' for plants only reinforces the errors that have plagued the plant trade for decades.
Except for the Scindapsus, these are all just cultivars of Epipremnum aureum.

Gina1960 said: Please don't further the misidentification of Epipremnum as 'Pothos'. Botanists and Taxonomists have been fighting for YEARS to correct this misnaming.
Using 'common names' for plants only reinforces the errors that have plagued the plant trade for decades.
Except for the Scindapsus, these are all just cultivars of Epipremnum aureum.

Alright I'm done with this website. I thought for a while it was a good community but I'm really tired of rude people with zero tact commenting like you have. I have no problem being corrected in a constructive way. I do have a problem with straight.up rudeness. So thanks. Deleting my account.

I am always sorry to see someone new to the community take umbrage at something said, and react poorly. It is almost inherent to online forums like this, but I wish it were easier to convey "tone-of-voice" to lessen the upset.
I did not find Gina's post rude (and I know I can be rude…).
If I had been the first one to respond I also would have been pointing out errors, which is moot now.
In the echo-chamber of the internet I feel strongly that we all need to try to put the best and most up to date information forward. Hopefully fewer errors will be echoed.
This website is definitely one of the best for current horticulture. I have also found the various communities within to be great as well. No place is perfect.

Aside from the mis-named title, every one of those photos is properly identified. The poster's point, as I interpreted it, was that they AREN'T pothos but are called such.

If this gardening site is going to label these plants in the database like this


And this


then how can we expect new or inexperienced gardeners to learn the difference?

Yes they are labeled correctly in the individual post it's. But the title of the post defeats that. Anyway no rudeness was meant. And I won't even go into this sites allowance of the Prismacolor line of plants in stores now given equal footing with the accepted species and cultivar names of the plants their made up marketing names displace.
I won't comment on this list again.

I didn't want to get into the weeds but the leaf IDed as a neon pothos is a Philodendron.

lol yes it's Lemon lime

Lol! That's a reasonable correction!

seeing how things were going I didn;t want to bring that up

I'm not in the "correct vs. incorrect nickname" contingent anymore because I don't believe it is possible to describe nicknames that way. They can be regional, vary by native language, widely used, or personal to a single person, be the former name still being used as a nickname, but they can't be invalid. Millions are sold with a tag that says Pothos.

A lot of plants are called by their former genus names, like "annual Vinca" for Catharanthus roseus, "Geranium" for Pelargonium, people never stopped calling "Coleus" by that name, through its journey around other genera, "Aralia" for Dizygotheca/Schefflera/Plerandra, and a lot of others. A lot of flowers that are not in the Lilium genus are called lilies. It's very common for multiple plants to share a same nickname. And for a single plant to have multiple nicknames.

If one wants to refer to a plant to the exclusion of all others, the botanical epithet is required, which can entail an list of a bunch of former names, synonyms, and footnotes about where each name is or isn't "accepted." I like to include as many nicknames and synonyms as I can remember when I refer to plants so people will have the info, if I'm in the mood for the typing at the moment.

It doesn't make sense for plant lovers to have this kind of friction. Aren't we all just here to appreciate and share our plants?

I went back to calling my Schlumbergera truncata plants Christmas cacti because that's what everybody else calls them and I felt pedantic "correcting" people to tell them it's really a mislabeled Thanksgiving cactus. What's the point of that? It might be fun & interesting to discuss a little history, that there was a different plant that bore that nickname originally, but I don't enjoy and don't believe it's appropriate for me to tell anyone they should or need to call their plant Thanksgiving cactus instead of Christmas cactus, or Epipremnum instead of Pothos. There's a difference between providing additional info and asking someone to please stop doing something that isn't wrong in the first place.

There are a lot of variations when it comes to Pothos leaves. They are very popular. The Scindapsus ones have a reputation for not being as easy-going as the Epipremnums.

Gina1960 said: seeing how things were going I didn;t want to bring that up

I'm sorry, I was on a bad mood and posting my little collection was a high point of my week so I was unnecessarily sensitive. I reacted inappropriately.

I feel better now that Im omw home withy favorite pothos of all


The rubber pothos! :)

Re: the "neon" I always wondered Bout that. Thanks everybody

chelseanolse said:

The rubber pothos! :)

Thanks for that, Chelsea. Glad you decided to stick around.

Another day, another pothos


And....another one?!?


And....my god they've taken over


AHHH


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IDK about all that, but that fingernail really rocks!

All it needs is a couple tiny rhinestones.

I'm really glad this 'blew over' and is friendly again!

Looks like you have a nice variety of Epipremnum.


The problem is so many nurseries / suppliers call the plant 'Pothos'.
If I talk to to a non serious plant person, most know what a 'Pothos' plant is.
Not sure how many would know what Epipremnum is.
Plus the bigger problem for me is I wouldn't even pronounce it correctly. LOL

Anyway, had to do so reclipping on my 'Marble Queen'. Wife was mentioning every time she entered the kitchen about the vine hitter her head.

All unclipped


Reclipped

I don't see any problem, but I do see your gorgeous plants, Steve! The one vine looks like Tarzan could show up and start swinging around soon.

I have some vines that keep growing down into my way above my desk. Time to get out some hooks and do the around-the-room thing. I can't keep making more pots of it.

elgecko said:
Anyway, had to do so reclipping on my 'Marble Queen'. Wife was mentioning every time she entered the kitchen about the vine hitter her head.

All unclipped

I'm surprised it wasn't sucked up by the vacuum or Kitty didn't use it for a rope ladder to the ceiling. Both possibilities at my house.