Anthurium ("Dreamweaver" x Ree papillilaminum) x ("Michelle" x "Zara")

("Dreamweaver" x Ree papillilaminum) x ("Michelle" x "Zara")

Both sides of this cross trace back to Tim Anderson's 'Wonder Boy', likely by way of a selfing on each end, so I suppose this whole batch is a family reunion whether the seedlings know it or not. The seed parent starts with "Dreamweaver", Daryl at Tezula's select red crystal plant, itself probably a selfing of Enid's red crystal - super-red emergent leaves that made their presence known here. Crossed onto A. papillilaminum "Ree", the older-lineage pap that Marie Nock grew for years before the clone took off stateside, known for tall ears, wide lobes, and a long leafblade on top of the usual pap virtues.

The pollen parent, "Michelle" x "Zara", has its own small story - the inverse of one of Dr. Block's more widely traded mass-releases, picked up at a roadside nursery off Krome Ave in the summer of 2023, tucked in among orchids and platycerium, still wearing an old defunct-QR-code tag from the pre-branding era of Doc Block releases. A cast-off with a decent pedigree hiding under a generic label.

Put it all together and you get a seedling with deep red-pink emergents and good veination, which tracks given who's sitting two generations back on both sides.