Mother plant · M06

Anthurium (carlablackiae × papillilaminum) × Ace of Spades

House reference Orion

Not for sale · her clones are

Cross

(carlablackiae × papillilaminum) × Ace of Spades

Provenance

Own collection

In the collection since

August 2025

The specimen

The two most wanted parents, plus depth.

Carlablackiae x papillilaminum already combines the two most requested velvet parents in the hobby. Ace of Spades is added for depth of colour rather than for shape.

Orion holds the rounded carlablackiae outline with the leaf substance papillilaminum brings, finished in the near-black AOS is selected for.

Variegation is sectoral and present across the current 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.

Species · Panama

Anthurium carlablackiae

The species most collectors are actually chasing, and the one that costs the most to put into a cross. It comes from Panama and gives a compact, rounded heart with a deeply closed sinus, so the leaf reads almost circular rather than pointed. The velvet is exceptionally dark, closer to black than green under most light, with clean bright venation running across it. It stays smaller than magnificum or papillilaminum and holds a tight, upright form rather than sprawling. Growth is slow and deliberate. In a cross it pulls the leaf shorter and wider and deepens the colour, and it usually wins the argument about outline.

Species · Panama

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.

Named hybrid line

Ace of Spades

A benchmark dark hybrid line rather than a species, selected over generations for near-black colour and thick leaf substance. The name refers to the shape as much as the colour, a broad spade-like blade with a heavy feel and a matte finish that swallows light. Venation is present but understated, so the plant reads as a block of colour rather than a pattern. Dark Form, usually written DF, is the darker selection within that line and is the one used when colour is the point. It is a colour parent, not a shape parent. Expect depth over drama, and a plant that photographs far worse than it looks in person.

The photograph is not an illustration of what your plant might become. It is the specification.

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What a clone from this mother is

Not a seedling. Not a cross. The same plant.

Every specimen released under Orion 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