(carlablackiae x warocqueanum) x ["Tim's Black" x ("Greige" x red crystal)]

(carlablackiae x warocqueanum) x (Tim's Black x (Greige x red crystal))

The seed parent here is Karlach - yes, I know, Carloc, same diff, my shorthand for it and my nod to the DND crowd. I picked it up from one of Bill's first live sales at SKG, tagged Tezula, as a juvenile plant that had no business impressing me the way it eventually did. Warocqueanum crosses are a coin flip at best, most don't make it to a sellable plant, so I didn't expect much. It matured into something I couldn't have sketched in my head if you'd asked me to guess. The signature move is these puckered 'hips' about a third of the way down the margins from the sinus, which take what should be a fat shield-shaped leaf and pull it into something closer to a slender trilobe. I love this plant, plain and simple, and it's earned a heavy hand in what I breed going forward.

The pollen parent is Tim's Black crossed onto Greige x red crystal. No notes on file for that one, so I'll let it speak for itself once it's grown enough to say anything.