Mother plant · M02
Anthurium magnificum × dressleri 'White'
House reference Frost
Not for sale · her clones are
The specimen
Two-tone, and large with it.
Magnificum contributes scale and the square petiole, along with the silver venation that made the species a benchmark. Dressleri brings denser velvet and a narrower blade.
Frost inherits the size from one side and the depth from the other. Leaves are large, matte, and hold their form as they harden.
The white sectoring is broad rather than speckled, which is why she reads as two-tone from across a room.
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 magnificum
The size parent. Magnificum produces large, broad velvet leaves with heavy silver venation and, distinctively, square petioles that you can feel with a thumb. It is the parent to use when you want scale rather than refinement, and it passes leaf size on strongly. The surface is velvet but slightly less matte than papillilaminum. It is also one of the easier velvet species to grow, and it tends to pass that tolerance on, which matters more than people admit. Expect a plant that outgrows its neighbours, wide rather than long, with venation you can read across a room.
Anthurium dressleri
A Panamanian species prized for the darkest, densest velvet in the group. The blade is narrower than crystallinum or magnificum and often held semi-pendant, with fine pale venation on an almost black ground. Emergent leaves frequently come out coppery or wine-red before hardening dark, which is one of the most striking things a velvet Anthurium does, and it is the trait the Dark Phoenix line was built on. It is slower and fussier than the common species, wanting steady humidity and no cold. In a cross it contributes depth of colour and a narrower outline rather than size.
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 Frost 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.
See what is available nowNothing listed means nothing is ready. That is deliberate.
Tell me when Frost produces.
One email, only about this mother, only when a clone from her is ready. Nothing else.
We keep a separate list per mother, so you only hear about the plants you asked about.
You are on the list for Frost.
You will hear from us the day a clone from her is ready, before it goes public.
Released from this mother
Taken from Frost.
Each of these is a rooted clone from the plant above. Same genetics, same leaf architecture, grown on here before release.
Availability changes without warning. Nothing here is reserved until checkout is complete.