("Michelle" x "Zara") x 'Amy'

(Michelle x Zara) x Amy

The seed parent is the inverse of the more widely traded of Dr. Block's early mass-releases, which is a polite way of saying it's the one nobody wanted to flip for a profit during the mid-COVID plant craze. I found it off Krome Ave in the summer of 2023, wedged between orchids and platycerium at a roadside nursery, still wearing an old 'Nurturing Nature' tag with a QR code that leads nowhere anymore. A cast-off, sure, but a good one - the deep red-pink emergents and the venation on this plant are no accident, they trace back to Tim Ander