Mother plant · M13
Anthurium (papillilaminum × crystallinum) × Black Velvet Eastern Panama
House reference Sable
Not for sale · her clones are
The specimen
A species with a new name.
Black Velvet Eastern Panama has since been formally described as Anthurium antolakii, named for the breeder Rory Antolak. It comes from the Guna Yala highlands of eastern Panama, and it produces blood red new leaves that harden almost black. It shares round petioles with papillilaminum, which is part of why the two cross so readily.
Sable carries that species over a papillilaminum x crystallinum base, so silver venation sits on a very dark ground.
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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 antolakii, formerly BVEP
Known for years as Black Velvet Eastern Panama and formally described only recently as Anthurium antolakii, named for the breeder Rory Antolak. It comes from the Guna Yala highlands of eastern Panama and grows terrestrially rather than epiphytically. New leaves emerge blood red and harden to something very close to black on the better individuals, which is the trait it is grown for. It shares round petioles with papillilaminum, which is part of why the two cross so readily and why the combination has become popular so quickly. Venation is fine and pale on a dark ground. Expect dramatic new growth and a very dark settled leaf.
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 Sable 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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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 Sable.
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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