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Aglaonema commutatum
Also called Poison Dart Plant, Silver Queen, Chinese Evergreen, Silver Queen Aglaonema
In Singapore: Chinese Evergreen, Silver Evergreen, Pewter, Painted Drop-Tongue, Philippine Evergreen (Cultivated in Singapore)
Aglaonema commutatum is a shade-tolerant, slow-growing tropical foliage plant from the Philippines and Sulawesi, grown mainly as a houseplant for its silver-patterned leaves. Keep it warm and out of direct sun, and let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Aglaonema commutatum, the poison dart plant, is a species of flowering plant in the Chinese evergreen genus Aglaonema, family Araceae. It is native to the Philippines and northeastern Sulawesi, and has been introduced to other tropical locales, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Comoros, the Chagos Archipelago, India, Bangladesh, and the Cook Islands. Its hybrid cultivar 'Silver Queen' (with A. nitidum) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as a houseplant.
Chinese Evergreen · Chinese Evergreen · Malayan Sword · Chinese Evergreens
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aglaonema commutatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
