Dieffenbachia plant

Abstract

A new and distinct plant variety of the Arum Family has a growth habit providing specimens which exhibit a compact growth habit with frequent tillering, leaf blades having a mottled generally achlorophyllous center field that is extensive by comparison to those of the `Perfection` and `Exotica` varieties and provided with achlorophyllous streaks that follow the pattern of the lateral secondary veins, and with chlorophyllous blotches and flecks that include colors found in a narrow border area surrounding the center field. The petioles of the leaf have a basal sheathing portion with a distal termination that characteristically is located closer to the leaf blade than to the petiole insertion at blade maturity.

I claim: 
     
       1. The new and distinct variety of the Arum Family, substantially as herein shown and described.