Anthuriums 0000-0500

Last updated 26 November 2020

ID Number and Name: 0002 Alexis Mateo
Sibling Group: AB ('Gemini' / 18 July 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0005 Chad Michaels
Sibling Group: AB ('Gemini' / 18 July 2011)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0026 Peaches Christ
Sibling Group: AB ('Gemini' / 18 July 2011)
Current Status: Given away / sold

ID Number and Name: 0031 Sylvester
Sibling Group: AD ('Orange Hot' / 8 October 2011)
Current Status: Dead (thrips and/or brevipalpus mites)

ID Number and Name: 0034 Alaska Thunderfuck
Sibling Group: AJ ('Gemini' / 6 January 2012)
Current Status: Dead (rot / overwatered)

ID Number and Name: 0035 Alyssa Edwards
Sibling Group: AJ ('Gemini' / 6 January 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0040 Ivy Winters
Sibling Group: AD ('Orange Hot' / 15 October 2011)
Current Status: Given away / sold

ID Number and Name: 0041 Anna Graham
Sibling Group: AD ('Orange Hot' / 15 October 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0045 Lineysha Sparx
Sibling Group: AC ('Pandola' / 1 October 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: decapitation or rot, not that interesting anyway)

ID Number and Name: 0046 Aurora Boreanaz
Sibling Group: AE (NOID purple / 13 November 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, leggy habit, partial accidental decapitation)

ID Number and Name: 0058 Betty Larsony
Sibling Group: AM ('Gemini' / 27 January 2012)
Current Status: Dead (poor quality)

ID Number and Name: 0059 Bijoux Tuit
Sibling Group: AM ('Gemini' / 1 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: generally crappy, partial accidental decapitation)

ID Number and Name: 0063 Audrey Quest
Sibling Group: AM ('Gemini' / 1 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (vining / unwieldy)

ID Number and Name: 0066 Barbara Seville
Sibling Group: AF ('Gemini' / 18 November 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: boring/crappy, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0072 Beth Rowe
Sibling Group: AF ('Gemini' / 18 November 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: suspected scale, Xanthomonas, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0076 Bob Humbug
Sibling Group: AF ('Gemini' / 18 November 2011)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0083 Carmen Adairya
Sibling Group: AF ('Gemini' / 18 November 2011)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0085 Carson Trucks
Sibling Group: AF ('Gemini' / 18 November 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0088 Charlotte F. Babylon
Sibling Group: AF ('Gemini' / 18 November 2011)
Current Status: Dead (rot)

ID Number and Name: 0091 Bob Sharunkle
Sibling Group: AF ('Gemini' / 18 November 2011)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0097 Colin Ambulance
Sibling Group: AI (NOID purple, 21 December 2011)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0105 Deanne T. Christ
Sibling Group: AI (NOID purple, 21 December 2011)
Current Status: Dead (unclear causes, just kinda collapsed one day)

ID Number and Name: 0108 Deena Sequins
Sibling Group: AI (NOID purple, 21 December 2011)
Current Status: Dead (exposed to a severe scale infestation, generally malingering)

ID Number and Name: 0110 Delta Badhand
Sibling Group: AI (NOID purple, 21 December 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0112 Dottie A. Rebel
Sibling Group: AI (NOID purple, 21 December 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0115 Erlene Adopter
Sibling Group: AG ('Orange Hot' / 7 December 2011)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0116 Eileen Dover
Sibling Group: AG ('Orange Hot' / 7 December 2011)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0118 Elijah Sturdabowtit
Sibling Group: AH ('Orange Hot' / 17 December 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: ghost mites, blooms consistently short-lived, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0120 Eliza Boutisecksis
Sibling Group: AH ('Orange Hot' / 17 December 2011)
Current Status: dead (unclear causes; long slow decline)

ID Number and Name: 0125 Anya Wei
Sibling Group: AM ('Gemini' / 1 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead, 4" (dry)

ID Number and Name: 0126 Erin Dirtylondry
Sibling Group: AM ('Gemini' / 1 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: ghost mites, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0132 Eve Stropper
Sibling Group: AJ ('Gemini' / 14 January 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: accidental decapitation, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0144 Graham Reaper
Sibling Group: AM ('Gemini' / 1 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0147 Denise O. Deanefew
Sibling Group: AM ('Gemini' / 1 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (heavy thrips damage, also suspected scale)

ID Number and Name: 0149 Heather Boah
Sibling Group: AM ('Gemini' / 1 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (suspected scale / crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0171 Genevieve la Difference
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: boring)

ID Number and Name: 0179 Katie Boundary
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0200 Mario Speedwagon
Sibling Group: AE (NOID purple / 13 November 2011)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0202 Mason Pepperspray
Sibling Group: AE (NOID purple / 13 November 2011)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: boring/crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0203 Anna Mae Hemensouz
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0205 Venus D-Lite
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0206 Marcia Dimes
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: scale, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0212 Rogue
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale, also very long internodes)

ID Number and Name: 0213 Nadya Falt
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (rotting?)

ID Number and Name: 0214 Anita Knapp
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (dry)

ID Number and Name: 0215 Nathan Ofithlam
Sibling Group: AN ('Gemini' / 11 February 2012)
Current Status: Dead (rot / overwatering)

ID Number and Name: 0216 Gillian Jamm
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0217 Vivacious
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: thrips, crappy, Xanthomonas)

ID Number and Name: 0218 Noah Fence
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (boring / crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0220 Nora Morse
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (late 2019 purge: suspected scale, thrips, boring)

ID Number and Name: 0223 Patty Cake
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: boring, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0228 Hoku Mama Swamp
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, leggy habit)

ID Number and Name: 0231 Rhea Listick
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (unclear causes)

ID Number and Name: 0232 Rhoda Badcek
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0234 Ross Koz
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0235 Rowan Deboate
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0236 Roxanne Debree
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (dry)

ID Number and Name: 0237 Roxy Casbah
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0238 Rudy Day
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (rot / overwatering)

ID Number and Name: 0239 Russ Teanale
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0241 Megan Gigaterra
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (dry, but also prior scale)

ID Number and Name: 0243 Sal Monella
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (dry)

ID Number and Name: 0244 Sara Problem
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (dry)

ID Number and Name: 0245 Sawyer Ad
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0247 Selma Carr
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (rot / overwatering)

ID Number and Name: 0255 Steph N. Wolfe
Sibling Group: AR ('White Gemini' / 21 April 2012)
Current Status: Dead (dry and/or rotting)

ID Number and Name: 0257 Summer Bederth-Enuthers
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (rot / overwatering)

ID Number and Name: 0259 Tasha Salad
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (thrips, leggy habit, exposed to scale)

ID Number and Name: 0263 Leo Long
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0264 Trey Lerpark
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0267 Natalie Attired
Sibling Group: AS ('White Gemini' / 5 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0271 Wanda Reulthemal
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0273 Wes Coast
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (accidentally uprooted and wouldn't re-root)

ID Number and Name: 0275 Yvette Horizon
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0276 Zach Religious
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0279 Tristan Shout
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0280 Jujubee
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (rot)

ID Number and Name: 0281 Laganja Estranja
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (sprawling, obnoxious habit and boring blooms)

ID Number and Name: 0282 Dave Trading
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0283 Anne Pursand
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (accidentally uprooted and wouldn't re-root)

ID Number and Name: 0288 Cookie Buffet
Sibling Group: AT ('White Gemini' / 19 May 2012)
Current Status: Dead (crappy + scale)

ID Number and Name: 0290 RuPaul Charles
Sibling Group: AU ('White Gemini' / 27 July 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0300 Monica Beverly Hillz
Sibling Group: AU ('White Gemini' / 27 July 2012)
Current Status: Dead (crappy + scale)

ID Number and Name: 0304 Amanda Harpoons
Sibling Group: AU ('White Gemini' / 27 July 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0314 Camille Yen
Sibling Group: AY (NOID pink / 26 January 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas)

ID Number and Name: 0317 Dred
Sibling Group: AY (NOID pink / 26 January 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: leggy habit, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0328 Polly Esther Blend
Sibling Group: AX (NOID red / 9 November 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, suspected scale, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0329 Gladys Panzarov
Sibling Group: AX (NOID red / 9 November 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0330 Faye Quinette
Sibling Group: AX (NOID red / 9 November 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0331 Elvis Herselvis
Sibling Group: AX (NOID red / 9 November 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: crappy, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0333 Isaiah Littleprayer
Sibling Group: AV (NOID red / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0334 Jean Poole
Sibling Group: AV (NOID red / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0335 Donna Fanuday
Sibling Group: AW ('White Gemini' / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0336 Jeff Boyardee
Sibling Group: AW ('White Gemini' / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (late 2019 purge: suspected scale, unclear root problem, growth habit, ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0338 Anne Fibian
Sibling Group: AW ('White Gemini' / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0339 Johnny Lufschachi
Sibling Group: AW ('White Gemini' / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (root rot and/or uprooted)

ID Number and Name: 0344 Formica Dinette
Sibling Group: AW ('White Gemini' / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (suspected scale)

ID Number and Name: 0345 Lauren Forcement
Sibling Group: AW ('White Gemini' / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (floppy habit, boring blooms)

ID Number and Name: 0346 Lois Carmen DiNominatre
Sibling Group: AW ('White Gemini' / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (late 2019 purge: suspected scale, abrupt collapse of main plant)

ID Number and Name: 0351 Pat McCooter
Sibling Group: AW ('White Gemini' / 16 October 2012)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0357 Rhea Litré
Sibling Group: AZ ('Gemini' / 7 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0360 Heidi Gosique
Sibling Group: AZ ('Gemini' / 7 March 2013)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0361 Willam Belli
Sibling Group: AZ ('Gemini' / 8 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (floppy habit, possible Xanthomonas)

ID Number and Name: 0362 Dennis Office
Sibling Group: AZ ('Gemini' / 8 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0363 Diego El Sabroso
Sibling Group: AZ ('Gemini' / 8 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (dry, crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0365 Murray Hill
Sibling Group: BA ('Gemini' / 12 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (dry, crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0366 Maureen Biologist
Sibling Group: BA ('Gemini' / 12 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (leggy, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0367 Petey Gibson
Sibling Group: BA ('Gemini' / 12 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: suspected Xanthomonas, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0371 Deb Autry
Sibling Group: BA ('Gemini' / 12 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (rot)

ID Number and Name: 0372 Tina Angst
Sibling Group: BC ('White Gemini' / 28 May 2013)
Current Status: Dead (crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0373 Shangela Laquifa Wadley
Sibling Group: BC ('White Gemini' / 28 May 2013)
Current Status: Dead (crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0378 Annie Thingeaux
Sibling Group: AZ ('Gemini' / 7 March 2013)
Current Status: Dead (late 2019 purge: suspected scale, thrips, ghost mites)

ID Number and Name: 0380 Ewan Watarmi
Sibling Group: AZ ('Gemini' / 8 March 2013)
Current Status: Alive, 6"

ID Number and Name: 0386 Violet Chachki
Sibling Group: BB (NOID purple / 6 April 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: Xanthomonas, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0404 Joe Hai
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (ugly, mainly due to thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0406 Tricia Nullmaritch
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: thrips, ghost mites, Xanthomonas)

ID Number and Name: 0407 Maria D'Millionaire
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: boring, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0408 Tex Messich
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: ghost mites, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0414 Trudy Vocean
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (thrips, dry, crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0415 Darby Dragons
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0416 Holy McGrail
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (scale, also crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0417 Tilda Endatime
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (crappy, mostly due to thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0421 Vincent Von Dyke
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: thrips, suspected Xanthomonas, boring)

ID Number and Name: 0423 Georgeanne D'Dragon
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: boring, suspected Xanthomonas, suspected ghost mites, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0424 Jen Antonic
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (crappy)

ID Number and Name: 0426 Zelda Zizzle
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (late 2019 purge: suspected scale, ghost mites, weird spotting underneath leaves, small/few blooms)

ID Number and Name: 0428 Helen Bach
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0438 Joelle Whatever-Nevermind
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: boring, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0440 Elsa Friesanova
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (dry)

ID Number and Name: 0446 Venus Xtravaganza
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: crappy, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0457 JizzaBella
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: suspected Xanthomonas, crappy, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0467 Regina Fong
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (scale)

ID Number and Name: 0470 Heather Haldane
Sibling Group: BF ('Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: crappy, suspected Xanthomonas, thrips)

ID Number and Name: 0473 Margo Howard-Howard
Sibling Group: BG ('Orange Hot' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (infrequent blooms; very leggy)

ID Number and Name: 0480 Walterina Markova
Sibling Group: BG ('Orange Hot' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (2017 purge: thrips, suspected Xanthomonas)

ID Number and Name: 0500 Frau Martha Wäber
Sibling Group: BH ('White Gemini' / 23 October 2013)
Current Status: Dead (ugly due to severe thrips)


4 comments

4 comments:

Beth said...

Haha, you are hilarious mrsubjunctive! Loved spinning the mouse wheel to see the anthuriums roll (way to many photos of the same thing)......... great blog, very different to the usual boring horticulture.

January 1, 2016 at 6:00 PM
Unknown said...

Hey Mr. S!

I'm having such a blast reading your blog. It's so refreshing to read a plant blog that's written with honesty and curiosity. I feel a little disoriented though. I can't (easily) find the entry where you describe the overall thrust of your breeding projects. Could you link this page to the blog entr(y/ies) where you describe the genesis/design of the Anthurium project? Who are the proud parents? Are they all named after drag personae?

June 8, 2016 at 4:37 PM
mr_subjunctive said...

Daniel McClosky:

Hey.

The breeding projects happened kind of gradually, so it was a progression from "I wonder if I can do this" to "holy shit it worked" to "oh my god they're blooming" to "BREED ALL THE PLANTS." I'm not aiming in any particular direction,[1] just kind of crossing randomly and seeing what, if any, interesting seedlings happen to appear.

The mental progression is probably mostly visible through the Anthurium seedlings tag, which starts in July 2011. May not be super-easy to read, given the reverse chronological order, but that's where most of it should be. There are a few posts in there where I mention all the parent varieties, though I'm not entirely consistent about their names because most of them came to me as NOIDs, and sometimes I have more confidence in my guesses than other times. There are roughly a dozen original parent varieties.[2] The seedlings up to 0635 Gia Gunn are all the first-generation offspring from that dozen; since 0636 Lourdes Prayer, some are F1s and some are F2s.

I've thought about adding an explanatory post for the Anthurium and Schlumbergera breeding, something to explain what I'm trying to do and why the names are weird and so forth, but it'd take some time to write and I wasn't sure if anyone would actually find it useful. So I haven't bothered. But maybe someday.

June 8, 2016 at 11:15 PM
mr_subjunctive said...



The name thing has also evolved with time; initially the idea was just drag queens, but then I added roller derby names (e.g. 0755 Evah Destruction), and I was spending so much time looking for new ones that I started making up my own (e.g. 1121 Christina Withakay), and this expanded to punny names in general (0076 Bob Humbug), and drag kings (0698 Landon Cider), faux queens (0527 Ms. Lucia Love), to the point where now I have several names that make me kind of uncomfortable because they're trans women who performed as drag queens before coming out as trans (0656 Carmen Carrera) or figures like (0892) Eddie Izzard, who isn't a drag queen, but does perform in women's clothing sometimes, and (0014) John Waters, who doesn't perform in drag or even wear women's clothing but is nevertheless drag-adjacent as hell. So the names are all in the same punny, gender-bendy neighborhood, kind of, but I'm pretty sure that some of the actual people I've named seedlings after would be upset to find out that they're being lumped in with some of the other people.[3]

Should also be noted that these were originally envisioned as placeholder names: something to call the seedlings until such time as they showed what qualities they possessed and something more specific could be chosen. If any of them become official, patented plants, I probably won't patent them under the same names they have here, though there are plausible exceptions (0031 Sylvester, 0217 Vivacious, 0580 Marsha Marsha Marsha). I've been assuming that the Schlumbergera names would be the official names if they were ever patented, though.

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[1] I have thought before that a large, blistered purple spathe, with dark green leaves, would be nice. Purple has turned out to be a difficult color to get, though, as you can see from the photos in the gallery: only 0200 Mario Speedwagon, 0386 Violet Chachki, 0480 Walterina Markova, and 0515 Diane Torr come close, and those last two are kind of shaky.
I've also thought, more imaginatively, that an Anthurium with red veins, or highly contrasting veins, would probably be pretty cool, but that's not anything I've ever seen before (not in a species compatible with A. andreanum, anyway), so it was kind of hey-wouldn't-this-impossible-thing-be-cool. Except that one of the recently up-potted seedlings actually has red veins on the newer leaves; only on the undersides, not the tops, but still.
[2] ('Gemini,' 'White Gemini,' a NOID which is probably 'Pandola,' NOID pink, 'Orange Hot,' 'Red Hot,' NOID purple, 'Midori,' NOID red, 'Joli,' NOID green-and-pink, a NOID which is probably 'Peppermint Gemini,' 'Krypton,' and a NOID red-purple which might or might not also be 'Krypton' have all contributed genes to some degree or another.
'Otazu' was the seed parent of two seedlings, but both have died and I know for a fact that it didn't contribute any pollen because the plant was never actually here -- a reader sent me a pollinated spadix.
I don't know whether 'Florida' is part of the ancestral generation or not; it's never been pollinated, and I've never seen pollen, but some of the seedlings sure look a lot like it anyway.
And there's a NOID dark red which hasn't done anything yet. So that's thirteen or fourteen varieties for sure (depending on whether 'Krypton' = the NOID red-purple), one I'm not sure about, and one that might be involved someday but isn't yet.
[3] There is only one case, to my knowledge, where the queen herself is aware that a seedling's been named after her; the real-life Peaches Christ knows. She wasn't acquainted with Anthuriums, but I'm told that after someone described one to her, she was like, oh, cool.

June 8, 2016 at 11:15 PM

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