Mother plant · M03
Anthurium (crystallinum × Angela) × (forgetii × crystallinum)
House reference Iris
Not for sale · her clones are
The specimen
Crystallinum on both sides.
Four parents, and crystallinum appears on both halves of the cross. That doubles down on the bold silver venation the species is known for.
Forgetii closes the leaf. It has no sinus at all, which pulls the heart shape into something rounder and more elliptic.
The result is a compact plant with unusually high vein contrast for its size. Tricolor sectoring has appeared on recent leaves.
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 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.
Angela
A named hybrid used in crystallinum breeding, valued for adding vein contrast and a tidy leaf outline. It is a cultivated line rather than a wild species, and its full parentage is not consistently published, so we describe what it contributes rather than claiming a lineage. In practice it reinforces silver venation and keeps leaf proportions compact. It is most often seen on the pollen side of a cross. Expect it to sharpen the pattern rather than change the shape.
Anthurium forgetii
The only parent here that changes the shape of the leaf outright. Forgetii has no sinus at all, meaning the blade closes completely at the base into a smooth ellipse instead of a heart, and that trait carries through crosses with unusual persistence. Leaves are held pendant on thin petioles, with fine silver venation on a matte surface. It is a smaller, lighter species that adds elegance rather than mass. Where papillilaminum opens the base of a leaf, forgetii pulls it shut, and in a cross between the two the result usually lands somewhere in between. Expect a rounder, more continuous leaf and a more delicate habit.
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 Iris 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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You will hear from us the day a clone from her is ready, before it goes public.
Released from this mother
Taken from Iris.
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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