Mother plant · M08
Anthurium (papillilaminum × crystallinum) × (debilis × RVDP), orange phenotype
House reference Copper
Not for sale · her clones are
The specimen
The orange one. A different plant.
The same cross exists in a standard expression. This is the orange phenotype, and it is treated as a separate mother because it is one.
Orange variegation in this line is uncommon and does not appear in every seedling. Where it does appear it tends to be stable, and it carries a materially higher value than the standard form.
The rest follows the base cross: matte, velvet, strong venation, moderate growth.
What is behind her
Where each trait comes from.
A cross is not a blend. Each parent decides different things, and knowing which one is responsible for what tells you a great deal about how a clone from her will grow out.
Anthurium papillilaminum
The backbone of modern velvet breeding, and the parent most likely to decide what a hybrid looks like. It comes from Panama and carries a long, elongated blade rather than a wide heart, with deep basal lobes that open rather than close. The surface is true matte velvet, so it absorbs light instead of reflecting it, and pale venation reads faintly in ambient light and sharply from the side. Petioles are round, which is part of why it crosses so readily with other round-petioled species. It brings substance, meaning the leaf feels thick and holds its shape as it hardens. Expect length over width, a matte finish rather than gloss, and a plant that gets noticeably better as it matures rather than peaking early.
Anthurium crystallinum
The venation parent. Crystallinum is grown for the bold silver to white veins that run across a dark velvet ground, and that contrast is the single trait it passes on most reliably. The leaf is a broad heart with a closed to slightly open sinus, held more upright than pendant. Where papillilaminum lengthens a leaf, crystallinum widens it. It also tends to speed things up, and hybrids carrying it often push leaves faster than the other parent would alone. Expect strong vein contrast, a rounder outline, and a plant that shows its quality early rather than making you wait three years for it.
Anthurium debilis
A smaller, less showy species used in breeding for what it does rather than how it looks alone. It brings compact size, a tidy leaf outline and a general robustness that heavier velvet species lack. In a cross it tends to moderate the extremes, pulling an oversized hybrid back into a manageable size without flattening its character. It is rarely the reason someone buys a plant, and frequently the reason the plant survives its first year. Expect restraint rather than drama from this side of the cross.
Red Vein Dark Phoenix
Usually written RVDP, and it is the red-veined selection out of the Dark Phoenix line rather than a separate hybrid. Dark Phoenix is a dark papillilaminum line, widely stated as papillilaminum crossed with dressleri, and RVDP is the individual selected for the contrast between a near-black blade and fine copper to red venation. That warm venation is unusual in a group where veins are normally silver or white. New leaves emerge distinctly coppery and darken over two to three weeks, so the contrast peaks just after a leaf opens. It passes the red venation on reliably and deepens the base colour of whatever it meets. Expect warm venation on a cold dark ground, and a plant worth watching while it hardens rather than only when it is settled.
The photograph is not an illustration of what your plant might become. It is the specification.
What a clone from this mother is
Not a seedling. Not a cross. The same plant.
- Every specimen released under Copper is a rooted clone taken from the plant on this page. No seed. No variation lottery.
- Genetically identical. Same variegation genetics, same leaf architecture, same growth habit.
- What you see above is what yours becomes.
- Grown in Sweden from propagation onward. No import shock between her and your plant.
All variegated aroids carry long-term reversion risk, and no grower can honestly promise otherwise. What you get is her exact genetics and her documented track record, not a guarantee about every future leaf.
Released from this mother
Her clones, when they exist.
She is not always in propagation. When a clone is ready it is listed here first.
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Tell me when Copper produces.
One email, only about this mother, only when a clone from her is ready. Nothing else.
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You will hear from us the day a clone from her is ready, before it goes public.
Released from this mother
Taken from Copper.
Each of these is a rooted clone from the plant above. Same genetics, same leaf architecture, grown on here before release.
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