"Splash Gordon"?

I bought a philodendron bipennifolium recently and planted it in this planter in our faux rock wall. All of a sudden it's new growth isn't solid green like all the older leaves are. Some of the leaves are spotty which can make me think bugs are at fault but then there's this leaf which is clearly not bugs but very variegated. I might think sport, but this is happening on several stems (possibly all, jury still out) so I ruled out sport. I find it strange that this be a variegated plant that showed no variegation at all when I bought it, but is it possible? Do I have "Splash Gordon"?

The variegated leaf

spotty leaf

whole plant, you can see this is no baby cutting, but a good sized plant. What do you all think?

AZRENO,
To begin with ,your plant is a BIPENNIFOLIUM but not
Splash Gordon as the leaves have to much ear, I guess it is
P. Bipennifolium GLAUCOUS.
Check the philodendron database for guide, I have posted both.
Second, I think it might be variegated which some time appears
at a later date if your plant comes from a clipping of a variegated
mother.
It has happened to me.
Send me a pic of one leaf with a little more light on the photo.
Armando.

Thanks for the reply Armando. Here's another pic this morning. It's hard to get a good pic of this leaf, it's so shiny but I hope this is better.

I have been thru the plantfiles and find few pics of bipennifolium to tell you the truth. I can't see how anyone would tell thru those pics the difference between p. bipennifolium and p. bipennifolium "glaucus" with no pics of the leaves at the same stages stages :(. Am curious about your pic of "splash gordon"....was under the impression this was a variegated plant?

So one would call my plant just a variegated p. bipennifolium?

Thanks for your input!

Lynn

AZRENO,
Lynn, after seeing your last pic, it doesn't look like a variegation to me.
It could be some sort of sickness, I can not be sure.
As far as I know there are three Bipennifoliums
FLASH GORDON (teddy bear ), GLAUCOUS and the AUREA VARIEGATA
this last one is the Glaucous with a variegation
The basic difference in between Flash & Glaucous is the upper two lobes (ears)
In the Flash there is almost no ears (flat ), making it almost a no trilobe
If you send me your e-mail I will send pics of the three
I think there is a forum for plant diseases, that you might post your last pic.
Armando

Thanks for explaining the difference to me, I get it now.

I do hope the plant is not diseased, I'll keep a close eye on it as I don't think there would be enought to go on at the moment. There isn't any deterioration to the leaves, despite what comes from our extreme heat the lack of humidity up until last week. The plant looks very healthy :(

AZRENO,
Lynn, you can check in plant files( philodendrons ) and I have
photos of the three.
Armando

Yes Armando, I've looked at all the pics, but your p. bipennifolium pics are not at the same stage as mine. I've searched for images and mine seems very much like the standard p. bipennifolium. I don't see that mine has ears that you refer to 'glaucus' having, also 'glaucus' is supposed to have something of a blue tint to it, hence the name- mine is very emerald green. I'll stick with it being p. bipennifolium, I'm OK with that :)

I'm just not ready to throw it in the trash because it's diseased. I've seen mosaic in aroids before and this isn't it. After looking around ot see what else might be infecting it I come up with nothing. I'm gonna let it grow and see what it does, it has so many new leaves coming out on it so I should see more soon- darn thing is loving the humidty with our monsoon season even though I haven't had rain yet lol

Thanks!
Lynn