The collection.
A work in progress,
compendium of plants grown indoors in my garage.
Anthurium luxurians (Colombia) x dressleri Rio Guanche* ecotype ‘Black Magic’ clone B/sib B
acquired in 2020
the name ‘Black Magic’ is trademarked by the breeder whom also stopped selling the props of this clone in 2019, hence why I was only able to get this sibling from the same seed batch: ‘clone B’.
fertile as breeding plant
impressive size with current larges leaf at 22” and holding over a dozen leaves
the RG ecotype dressleri clone was used by Jay Vannini to make this hybrid
care: cool/cloud forest climate
2. Anthurium carlablackiae (Darien Gap), NSE
obtained from NSE Tropicals in 2021
?likely RA clone?
care: warm climate
3. Anthurium hybrid: Curandero: papillilaminum ‘Ft. Sherman’ x sp. nov. Rimachii
sp. nov. aff. Rimachii can get 3ft tall and was found growing in standing water. This hybrid is hard to kill.
care: warm
4. Anthurium hybrid: Shaman’s Apprentice: luxurians (Colombia) x papillilaminum (Panama)‘Ft. Sherman’
luxurians as a seed parent makes this one unique
JV hybrid obtianed in 2021
care: warm climate
5. Anthurium magnifucum, Norte, ‘Julie Mag’
acquired in 2018 from a former collector of select Aroids and Orchids in California
species origin: Colombia
care: warm climate
6. Anthurium pallidiflorum, ‘1’
2018, Scott Cohen
care: warm climate
7. Anthurium pallidiflorum ‘Ruff Ryder’
2018, Scott Cohen
over 5k occurrences in nature with a wide range
refuses to die (RIP DMX*)
care: warm climate
8. Anthurium punctatum
Ecuador, cloud forest
obtained from JV in 2021
very rare*.
ascession form material traded at an Australian Aroid conference in the early 90s that did a world tour before making it to my collection.
care: warm climate, needs shade to thrive and lots of high quality water with a rapidly draining substrate. (and I’m willing to throw all that out the window if someone out there has better luck with this species than I do and wants to share what sort of sorcery they’re using.)
9. Chlorospatha kolbii
Colombia/ Choco region. Very few recorded occurrences in nature.
Araceae/Aroid
care: warm climate, needs lots of water and shade to even consider being happy for me.
prone to dormancy if neglected (aka miss a watering and it will faint, but luckily it seems quite hardy as this one has bounced all the way back for me from a tantrum it threw after moving the entire collection.)
10. Anthurium regale x dressleri ‘Red Velvet’
A JV cultivar* of Anthurium regale ex-Moyobamaba Waterworks x Anthurium dressleri Rio Guanche ecotype (the OG clone)
smaller but with more vivid emerging leaves than sister plant ‘Voodoo Child’
acquired in 2021
care: warm
currently lives in a basket with my favorite NeoBB: C. amplexicaule; larger accommodations or a separation is eminent though as this plant matures taking on more regale traits.
11. Anthurium marmoratum x rugulosum “Quechua Queen”
marmoratum “JW x self” x rugulosum ‘Lago Agrio rd’
gets over 5’ tall
Care: cool
Anthurium leuconeurum-
(F1) seed grown from Jay Vannini
Both parent plants from the Chiapan highlands of Mexico.
care: cool
terms:
1- Rio Guanche- River region this clone was discovered
2- clone- trade term used by growers like me to describe specific individual(s) in a species that stand out and are distinguishable in passing traits to a new generation. The word really holds little weight as it can be assigned to ANY viable plant that one feels inclined towards.
3- DMX (1970-2021) was an avid orchid grower, poet, actor, and founded an ATV enthusiast group named the “Ruff Ryders”.
4- cultivar- as used in this article will be used to differentiate from hybrids as these are individual plants that were selected for specific traits, propped, then grown on into a stud colony (there was no Aroidmania then and breeders did more things like this pre 2018), that colony of clones were then further propped (what I grow) and thus it is not a hybrid that can be recreated; even using the same parent plants.