{"product_id":"anthurium-skg-dressleri-x-magnificum-x-papillilaminum-ft-sherman-x-carlablackiae-tropicarla","title":"Anthurium [(SKG dressleri x magnificum) x papillilaminum Ft Sherman] x carlablackiae \"Tropicarla\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e(SKG dressleri x magnificum) x papillilaminum Ft Sherman] x carlablackiae \"Tropicarla\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seed parent here is one of my favorite pap crosses in the greenhouse, and it comes with a story I'll keep telling until someone stops me. I bought it from Bill during my first ever trip to Silver Krome Gardens, right on the heels of the most recent IAS Show \u0026amp; Sale. He was exhausted. I was, by any reasonable measure, bothering him. He still drove me around his greenhouses while I shopped like a giddy kid let loose in a candy store, and an adult tried, valiantly, to get back to adult things. I paid him for the privilege, so we're square. Thanks, Bill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat seed parent is what's sometimes called \"Velvet Giant,\" and the name earns its keep. Crossed with pap Ft Sherman, it throws a maroon-brown emergent that diffuses into a green-brown leaf, velvety in a way that photographs never quite capture. It's also a big plant, full stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pollen parent, A. carlablackiae \"Tropicarla,\" has its own small scandal attached. I bought it from an Ecuadorian nursery blowing out stock at the end of a show, under the claim it was seed grown. Once home and properly inspected, it was clearly divided at the stem instead, though not enough evidence to make a real accusation, just enough to keep me a little suspicious of that table forever after. I keep several flowering-size carlablackiae around and try to tell them apart when I can, which is how this one got its name. I was in the greenhouse one night listening to a Rays broadcast, the announcer kept mentioning Tropicana Field, and it clicked. Tropicarla. I said \"eureka\" out loud, alone, like an idiot. Might be my best name yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePut those two together and you get this seedling, a much more intelligible statement than anything I've written above. Enjoy it, and whatever it decides to make of itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fuzzy Petioles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42429175201847,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0567\/1734\/4823\/files\/ece0bd86-856c-4550-8c43-a13fc7e30f09.jpg?v=1788469952","url":"https:\/\/40535d-84.myshopify.com\/products\/anthurium-skg-dressleri-x-magnificum-x-papillilaminum-ft-sherman-x-carlablackiae-tropicarla","provider":"Fuzzy Petioles","version":"1.0","type":"link"}