Anthurium ("Cinnamon Swirl" x "Tim's Black") x ("Red Velvet Cake" x "Zara")

("Cinnamon Swirl" x "Tim's Black") x ("Red Velvet Cake" x "Zara")

This is two of my favorite hybrids finally colliding, and I've been waiting a while to see what fell out of it. The seed parent is another Phil Iloo creation, taking two Tim Anderson legacy plants and mashing them into something that emerges cinnamon-y and hardens off with a zebra-striping venation you see across a lot of Tim's line breeding. Phil doesn't ship on his own, and I'm not in Miami often, so Aaron at Urban Leaf Shop tracked this one down for me as a small seedling. Both good guys, worth seeking out. If I had to guess, I'd say this one is connected somewhere down the line to 'Wonder Boy', though I can't prove it, and honestly half the fun of Tim's plants is not being entirely sure.

The pollen parent is a plant I paid too much for at the IAS Show & Sale from Doctor Jeffrey Block's booth back in September 2023. It sulked as a runt for a year, then took off after some real babying, and now throws emergent leaves anywhere from soft pink-brown to something closer to an arterial red depending on temperature and light. It's already made a few neat hybrids around the greenhouse, and this cross is one of them. Early days yet, but with this much venation and color pedigree behind it, I'm not in a hurry.