Anthurium (portillae x Rio Claorense wild hybrid) x magnificum "Norte"

The seed parent alone is worth stopping on: an emergent that doesn't pick a color and stick with it, cycling through blue, orange, green, yellow, and purple before it settles down into a deep jade with bright lines running through it. It was bred by a friend in Maryland and came to me as seed, and in about two years it's turned into one of the more genuinely unique plants on the bench.

Onto that, I put pollen from magnificum "Norte," a plant that's been floating around the trade for a while now, though mine came to me from Scott Cohen as a seed-grown baby. Its veination breaks from the usual magnificum script - the forks happen closer to the margin instead of staying tucked inside a perimeter vein, which makes you wonder if someone should sit down and sort out how many things we're lumping under one name here. Its inflorescence smells like menthol and mothballs, which, if you know magnificum, will not surprise you in the slightest.

Two very different kinds of interesting, colliding into one seedling batch. I'm curious what the color-shifting emergent looks like layered onto that kind of venation, and so, apparently, are the plants.