Illusion Penny Lace Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine

Illusion® Penny Lace is an ornamental sweet potato vine grown for its deeply divided burgundy leaves and compact, rounded form. Proven Winners' 2023 Canadian catalog distinguishes this selection from Garnet Lace by its deeper red foliage, finer dissection, and less trailing, more spherical habit. ## Form and landscape use The [2023 Proven Winners Canadian catalog](https://www.provenwinners.com/sites/provenwinners.com/files/catalogs_pdfs/s-5_proven_accents_section_2023_canada.pdf) places Penny Lace in the ILLUSION series and lists a 6–10-inch landscape height. The [patent record](https://www.hort.net/pedia/patent/grant/35096/) identifies NCORNSP-030ILPL as the variety denomination (PP35096, granted 11 April 2023) and describes a moderately compact, well-branched plant with palmate leaves divided into five to seven deep lobes. It characterizes growth as moderate and form as semi-erect and mounding; landscape and container uses are named. Its reported average height of 20.3 cm was measured on 50-day-old plants grown in six-inch greenhouse pots in Raleigh, so treat it as a trial observation rather than a mature-size guarantee. ## Maintenance The patent record says the plant branches freely and does not need pinching to promote branching. Shape lightly only if a container or bed needs a tidier outline; the documented form is compact and rounded rather than strongly trailing.