{"product_id":"anthurium-magnificum-mickey-x-carlablackiae-tropicarla","title":"Anthurium magnificum \"Mickey\" x carlablackiae \"Tropicarla\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003emagnificum\u003c\/em\u003e \"Mickey\" x carlablackiae \"Tropicarla\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seed parent alone could carry a blurb twice this length, so I'll keep myself honest. This is a clone of a plant likely wild-harvested some 80 years ago, grown for years in the foyer of a Miami orchid nursery by Mickey Carmichael herself. Enid Offolter saw it about 20 years back, when the plant was already thought to be pushing 60, and left with a cutting. Enid eventually donated a piece of her own enormous clone to the International Aroid Society's Annual Member Dinner and Auction, where I got into a bidding war over it and, thankfully, came out on top. A. \u003cem\u003emagnificum\u003c\/em\u003e is suspected to be a complex of 20 or more subspecies or ecotypes, and there are others floating around trade under names like \"Norte\" or \"Silver.\" I'm partial to this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pollen parent has a sillier origin story. I bought it off an Ecuadorian nursery at the tail end of a plant show, sold to me as seed grown. It was not, as became obvious once I got it home and found it divided at the stem. Not enough there to call it wild-collected, but I remain a little suspicious. I keep several flowering-size carlablackiae in the greenhouse and try to tell them apart when I can, and this one got its name off a baseball broadcast, of all things, when the announcer mentioned Tropicana Field one too many times and something clicked. Tropicarla. Possibly my best naming work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever comes of crossing these two, it inherits a decent bit of history on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fuzzy Petioles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42429200760887,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0567\/1734\/4823\/files\/70612958-e5f7-4b4b-9cc3-f7d7d6558f39.jpg?v=1788470869","url":"https:\/\/40535d-84.myshopify.com\/products\/anthurium-magnificum-mickey-x-carlablackiae-tropicarla","provider":"Fuzzy Petioles","version":"1.0","type":"link"}