'amy' x aff besseae "Long"

'Amy' x aff besseae "Long"

'Amy' is named for my mom, which means this blurb is obligated to be nice about her. Easy enough - she earned the name honestly, a naturally occurring selection out of my own growing efforts that I submitted to the IAS Cultivar Committee and they agreed was worth putting a name to. Strong primary venation against a dark green lamina, margins that undulate in a way that photographs never quite capture. The two smaller photos below catch her as a seedling, picked out early for exactly these traits.

Here's the part I like telling people: her parents are nothing to write home about. Handsome, sure, each with a characteristic or two worth mentioning at a swap meet, but not plants you'd pull out of a lineup. (crystallinum x magnificum) x (magnificum x nigrolaminum "Gigi") is the math behind her, for those keeping score, and yet the sum turned out better than either addend. A good reminder not to write off the pedestrian-looking bench plants too quickly.

The pollen parent is aff besseae "Long." That's really all I've got on this one - no story, no provenance, just a name on a tag and a seedling batch to see what it does when crossed onto 'Amy.'