Anthurium papillilaminum × 'Michelle' (Variegated)

Anthurium papillilaminum × 'Michelle'. Dark velvet with high-contrast veins — pap's depth meeting Michelle's white-and-pink venation and burgundy new growth, highly variegated and beginning to size up.

The cross

Anthurium papillilaminum (Panama) is the dark velvet benchmark — deep black-green, elongated heart-shaped, lightly papillose blades with pale veins. 'Michelle' (DocBlock) is an award-winning velvet hybrid known for dark burgundy-purple new leaves, deep green maturity, and bright white-and-pink venation.

The cross runs dark and velvet with high-contrast veining — pap's depth and form meeting Michelle's white-and-pink veins and burgundy emergents — and this plant carries high variegation, with leaves now beginning to size up. Seed-grown and one of a kind; variegated velvet is more delicate and leans on its green to grow.

This specimen

• Stage: establishing juvenile — beginning to size up
• Leaves: 5, all showing variegation
• Pot: 7cm
• Variegation: High across current growth
• Included: Inner pot
• Notes: Acclimated and ready to ship

One specimen. Photographed as received. No restock.

Care, briefly

• Light: Bright indirect — never direct, which marks the velvet and scorches the variegation. Good light keeps the variegation clean.
• Water: Lightly and evenly moist — never wet — letting the surface just dry between waterings. Keep water off the velvet.
• Humidity: 65%+. Velvet anthuriums, and variegated ones especially, brown at the edges in dry air.
• Mix: Airy, chunky epiphytic mix — bark, perlite and charcoal — fast-draining.
• Warmth: 20–27°C. No cold draughts, nothing below 15°C.
• Pace: Now sizing up — keep conditions stable and each new leaf comes in larger than the last, emerging burgundy and hardening to velvet.

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