Difference Between a Neon Pothos and a Philodendron Lemon Lime

hi everybody welcome back to cassandra's plants and today i wanted to do a little bit of a different video start a new series of comparing my potholes collection with my philodendrons which are basically equivalent plants and they always get confused and i always see loads of requests on facebook for which one is which so the first one in this series is probably the worst one of all of them and it took me ages to actually get both plants and and to see a real difference so today we're starting with a neon pothos and a lemon lime philodendron now that isn't a moonlight philodendron it is a philodendron um almost like a scandan's version or some people call it a lemon lime micans it's still a philodendron any which way so i'll let you have a look for a minute and see if you can tell which of the two plants here is which have a guess and i'll let you know if you're correct so this is the pothos and this is the philodendron now i've just noticed there's a bit of a sad leaf in there that i didn't realize was there but so the first thing first of all and i'll separate them a little bit so you can see where one starts and the other one finishes is that the pothos has a lot more variation in the lemony lime colors in the leaves so if i move this one out of the way for a minute you can see so this top one here is quite dark and then these little ones underneath are a lot more lemony and a lot more bright and the natural light today is a bit rubbish because it's a bit gray outside but um you can see and i'm sure that's down to how much light it gets and where it is but compared to the mykins or the philip engine lemon lime it is a vast difference and they're also slightly different shades of lemon lime this is more of a neat one that's why it's called a neon this is a lot more knee and whereas that's more a muted lemon and also on this one and i've noticed on pothos more you get a bit of um [Music] sort of natural variegation which is quite interesting because obviously this you know you can get there's a little bit on that big leaf as well in the middle um which is quite cool because you certainly don't get that on the philo dungeon that i've noticed so there are a couple of ways to identify um other than colors and things which is apothose and which is a philodendron and i use this um all the time now now i understood it so on here you can see that these leaves are elongated hearts they're not the nice rounded sort of valentine's day if you were drawing them as a kid-shaped heart it's like perfect they're long and even the bigger more mature leaves in the middle if i flatten this one out it's not perfect shape and it's certainly not it's still slightly elongated and they're longer so that's the first trick to tell the difference the second one is actually how the leaves grow so on apothous and this is on all pothos that i've got actually so it's obviously a common thing is that new leaves come from the stem and well all these come from the stem but they sort of emerge from another leaf so if you have a look here i don't actually have any new leaves on this one at the minute so we'll use this bit here as an example so as you can see this new stem has emerged from the bottom of this leaf and the new leaf will emerge here and it will grow out and the only other thing that's missing to do with these leaves is that they don't have cataphiles now i'll show you what a cataphile is on the other thing on the other um philodendron and cataphils are the little sheaths almost that you get on some plants where the new leaf is emerged from you don't have them on pothos because it emerges from the same leaf these little brown speckly bits on there and on there that you can see are what would have been the remnants of a cataphile but because it's just it's it's still part of that stem so it's not really classed as a caterpillar so it's a bit of an interesting one apotheos but there you go so i'm hoping to get some new leaves on this one and you can see if i hold it right up to the camera there is a sort of stripy line up the middle and that is a new leaf within that stem that's getting ready to pop out so that is a neon pothos then over here this is the philodendron lemon lime so this is the one that i got from plants and dot com online a couple of days ago maybe about a week ago now so it's still got a bit of the uh traveling soil um all over it as the stems seem really uh delicate on this so i'm a bit worried about shaking it and it'll go as it gets watered and it'll just fall off eventually so it's fine and it's not damaging it at all it's not doing anything so as you can see on this and we'll use let's find a good leaf this one as an example so look just move that out away a little bit here we go so you have a look at this leaf it is almost a perfect heart shape and if you compare it to this one and i would say that they're about the same maturity those two leaves they're roughly the same size on the plant if you like but that but the pothos is a lot more elongated and a lot more sort of oval or elliptical sort of stretched in the heart shape so there's difference um in the two leaves now again on here the best way to telephilo dungeon from apothous is how the new leaves grow so this is a new leaf that's about to come through up here and as you can see it isn't emerging from the stem the stem is separate and sorry the petriel is completely separate and this is emerging from the actual stem so this will pop out and then it will grow another stem off up there for a new leaf and this little thing here is the cataphil which is the cover that is currently still on this leaf but when the leaf pops out it will dry out and eventually fall off um but it tends to stay on there a little while just until the plant's completely done with it and as i think and don't quote me on this that that is how the plant um photosynthesizes until this leaf is fully up so it does it through that and then obviously once the leaf is out it doesn't need it and it dries and it falls off so they're the main differences but as you can see there is still some quite um interesting color variations on this so this leaf down here is actually quite dark and that's almost getting to the color of my golden um pothos which is really dark um but yeah almost it's getting there um which is interesting and there you go look this hugely so that's the main differences between those two and i think once they are next to each other you can really see the difference in the two plants the third plant everybody gets confused in this is a philodendron moonlight and i do have a really tiny baby version of this which isn't much good to show you anything other than that it's the same color at the minute because the leaves aren't um developed enough so um i can't really show you the difference on that but that one is um a climbing well they're all climbing but it's sort of an upright pothos and then an upright philodendron so it grows in a slightly different way it grows more like an imperial red or prince of orange or a pink princess or any of those type of ones if you've seen them it grows like that and it is a completely different plant and it becomes huge if you let it grow um straight up so that is those two and by all means let me know if you've got any questions um any more comparisons that you want to do i'm gonna run through um another couple today and try and get the videos videos out this week so you guys can see um and as always if you like my videos and you find them informative and would like some more let me know give us a like and a subscribe and i'll see you all again in the next video

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Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 22 2020