("Red Velvet Cake" x "Zara") x ("Cinnamon Swirl" x "Tim's Black")

("Red Velvet Cake" x "Zara") x ("Cinnamon Swirl" x 'Tim's Black')

This one's got a family tree on both sides worth bragging about. The seed parent was an overpriced runt I picked up at the IAS Show & Sale, September 2023, off the Doctor Jeffrey Block table - sulked for a year like it was thinking things over, then took off once I stopped hovering. Now she's a proper mother plant, throwing emergent leaves anywhere from a soft pink-brown to something closer to an arterial-wound red depending on the day, and she's already lent herself to a few other hybrids around the greenhouse.

The pollen parent is Phil Iloo's doing, two Tim Anderson legacy plants mashed together into something that carries the line faithfully while still being unmistakably Phil's. Phil doesn't ship and I'm not in Miami enough to make the trip worth it, so Aaron at Urban Leaf Shop tracked this one down for me as a small seedling. Both good guys, worth knowing.

The seedling itself emerges cinnamon-toned and hardens off with the zebra-striped venation that keeps popping up across Tim's different lines - if I had to bet, I'd say there's a 'Wonder Boy' connection lurking somewhere back in the pedigree of this cross, on top of everything else it's carrying.