Mother plant · M23
Anthurium (papillilaminum × Night Dragon) × Guna Yala
House reference Nyx
Not for sale · her clones are
The specimen
Gold on dark, copper on the way in.
Papillilaminum gives the narrow elongated blade and the deep midrib. Night Dragon gives the darkness. Guna Yala brings the substance and the heavy vein structure that reads from the side.
Her variegation is speckled rather than sectoral. Gold flecking scattered across a dark green field, dense on some leaves and sparse on others, so no two of her leaves read the same.
New growth comes in coppery red and glossy, then hardens into the speckled green over the following weeks.
She has been on the bench here since March 2025, which makes her one of the oldest plants in the collection. She predates the shop.
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.
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 Nyx 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 Nyx 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 Nyx.
You will hear from us the day a clone from her is ready, before it goes public.
Her record
Every leaf Nyx has pushed.
Photographed on the bench as they hardened off. Nothing here is a stock image and nothing is a different plant.
A mother is judged over time, not on one good photograph.
Released from this mother
Taken from Nyx.
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.