Cultivar · genus Chlorophytum

Vittatum

Chlorophytum comosum · ‘Vittatum’

Variegation traitPinstripe

‘Vittatum’ — reference photo — AI illustration: Horta

Guide

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The Striped Classic

'Vittatum' is the spider plant cultivar most people picture when they hear the name: an evergreen clump of arching leaves, each marked down its centre with a creamy-white stripe, and it holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. It is one of the two most commonly grown Chlorophytum comosum selections, the other being its mirror image, 'Variegatum'.

Source: RHS

Stripe Down the Middle

The defining mark of 'Vittatum' is a wide, creamy-white band running along the centre of each medium-green leaf, rather than variegation at the margins. In bloom it sends up sprays of small white flowers, and plantlets often form right among those flower sprays. This stripe-in-the-middle pattern is the detail that separates it from 'Variegatum', whose white falls along the leaf edges instead.

Source: RHS

Care recipe

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Care notes reviewed by Horta

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Lightfrom Chlorophytum comosum

Bright, indirect

Waterfrom Chlorophytum comosum

≈ every 12 days

HumidityOwn

Medium

Temperaturefrom Chlorophytum comosum

13–27 °C

Soil mixfrom Chlorophytum comosum

Loose, well-draining all-purpose potting mix

PropagationOwn

Propagate by seed, by division, or root plantlets.

Fertilizingfrom Chlorophytum comosum

Diluted liquid feed monthly in the growing season

Growth ratefrom Chlorophytum comosum

Fast

Floweringfrom Chlorophytum comosum

Small white flowers on arching runners

ToxicitySpecies level

Non-toxic to cats & dogs

Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) — ASPCA non-toxic; the genus carries no toxic principle. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-sonnet-5 · ASPCA

Kept true by its growers

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