Anthurium "Justin" x forgetii

Justin x forgetii

Justin needs no introduction if you've been around my seedlings for a while - I picked him up from Tezula back in summer of 2022, bred by another Justin over in Tampa who'd left seed at SKG, and I bought in purely because the name amused me. He's since become one of my most prolific breeders, which either says something about the plant or something about me. The hybrid itself is (crystallinum x magnificum) x subsignatum, and across more than fifteen crosses now he's reliably stamped his subtle subvelvet character onto whatever I've paired him with. Some clones of him are apparently floating around out there in other collections - if you run into one, that's just Justin being Justin.

Onto forgetii, a species I'll admit isn't much for a closed sinus, but there's something undeniably captivating about a wall of its leaves, veins all tracking back to a single point, staring at you flat and cold like it knows something you don't. It tends to hand down a blue cast and a dimpled, almost reptilian texture to its hybrid offspring, which is exactly the kind of texture I was hoping would show up here paired against Justin's softer subvelvet leanings.