Anthurium no. 1731 "Robyn Millyonz"

Robyn kind of speaks for herself. Or at least I hope she does, since I had trouble coming up with an interesting way of talking about her. Either way, this is something new:

I mean, there have been veiny spathes before (e.g. 1227 Angelboi), and there have been white (1265 Inez Paloma) or beige (1299 Sinthia D Meanor) spathes before, but veiny and white-beige is different.

When Robyn started to bud, I was expecting a green spathe,

and I was pretty excited about that. Not that green Anthuriums are especially attractive, but I'm interested in just how big of a range of color I can get out of the seedlings, so it's important to check the "green" box at some point.¹

But instead, the green lightened as the bloom developed, and by the time the spathe began to open, it looked like this:

Which progressed to

and eventually:

The new camera (I still think of it as "new" even though I've had it for nearly a year) has a lot of trouble with Robyn,² so these aren't exactly what you'd see in person, but these photos should be enough to get a general idea.

The leaves are fine. A little thrips-scarred, but we've seen worse.

And the plant as a whole has a decent shape.

Like 1709 Jinkx Monsoon, Robyn needs to be moved up to a larger pot soon, but I just don't have the space for it. So she waits. Hopefully that will be fine. She seems like a strong seedling. I'm maybe a little disappointed at how infrequent the blooms have been (I think the one in the photos is all I've gotten?), but otherwise she's a keeper.

Oh, and I should also mention that this is the first seedling from 0360 Heidi Gosique to bloom. Heidi was already one of my favorites (lots of blooms; large blooms; huge, flat, interestingly-textured leaves; not a lot of thrips damage -- her only flaw is that she seems to have a bit of a problem with Xanthomonas, though I'm not 100% certain about the diagnosis), but producing offspring like this makes her even more so.

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¹ Yes, there was 1419 Maya Douglas, who is technically green, but Maya's reluctant to rebloom, and the one inflorescence so far was pretty small. Also not a particularly vivid green, as far as that goes.
I suppose 1103 Valeria T and 1268 Li'l Miss Hot Mess are both close enough to green to be worthy of mention. Valeria is initially a very faint green, which intensifies as the spathe ages; Li'l Miss Hot Mess is white, but has green "ears." Both were seedlings of the pea-soup-green 'Midori.'
Not to spoil the plot or anything, but, although we do get an actual green green eventually, it will come from a parent that isn't green at all. Which was a nice surprise.
² (Similar to the difficulty it has with getting the color right on 1299 Sinthia D Meanor -- there's something about beiges and browns that the camera just can't handle, no matter how many combinations of the color settings I try.)