Schlumbergera seedling no. 058

For most of this winter, I've been able to keep blog posts written a week or two ahead, but the last week of February was complicated and often required my presence away from home, which means that I'm writing this on March 1, a mere four days before it's supposed to publish. And my attention today is going to be split between the blog and Super Tuesday primaries.

As I need to come up with a post quickly, and will be preoccupied by Super Tuesday coverage anyway, why not combine the two and use the election to name a seedling?

Well, because politics is a famously touchy subject and I'd just as soon not drive away readers, that's why. But I feel like I can thread this needle by referring to a quote by poet Marianne Moore, which Molly Ivins was often moved to quote during especially bonkers periods of political upheaval: it is an honor to witness so much confusion. Goodness knows I've been reminded of this quote many, many times since the 2016 election cycle began; I expect to be reminded of it many, many more.

I therefore christen seedling 058A Much Confusion.

While you're here, though: please remember to vote in your state's primary (if it is still in the future) and in the general election. I know it doesn't always look like it matters, and some of you probably live in places where it truly doesn't. But vote anyway. It's not all about the Presidency; elections for Congress, governors, state representatives, mayors, etc., all affect your life just as much, if not more -- they're the people who actually make the decisions about what your kids learn in school, whether the potholes on your street get fixed, what happens to you if you lose your job, and that sort of thing -- and your vote has a much higher chance of swinging the election in those cases.

I'd also consider it a kindness if you'd vote for someone who supports my right to remain married and to be able to access health care and stuff like that, but you do you.

Anthurium no. 0524 "Hedda Lettuce"

The best thing Hedda's got going for her is her color; the spathes are a very dark red. That's not my favorite color necessarily, but anything outside of the pink to pinkish-red range is unusual enough to be interesting, at least, if not actually good.

That's about all she has to offer, though. There has only been one bloom so far, and it was very small. I don't remember ever seeing scale, which I suppose is also a good thing, but she gets leaf scarring from thrips anyway, so the foliage is mediocre.

Scarring is harder to see on darker spathes, but as far as I can tell, the thrips are mostly leaving her alone.

I don't have anything much against her, I guess, and I intend to let her make a second bloom before deciding her fate, but I think she's probably not a long-term resident here, because space has become so limited and there are much more interesting plants around.

And that's all I've got to say about Hedda.

I do have some news you might find a little exciting, though, which is that I've seen buds on three second-generation plants. 0687 Pauline Pantsdown, daughter of 0273 Wes Coast, budded on New Year's Eve, 2015:

(Though the bud was already dying by the time I took this picture, which is why it doesn't look much like a bud.)
The foliage was somewhat damaged, but had potential:

and I was impressed that she was trying to bloom at all, considering how young and small she was:

Alas, Pauline is no longer with us, and my notes about what happened conflict with one another, so I'm not sure what actually happened. Since a large number of 0273 Wes Coast's offspring have attracted scale at some point or another,¹ I bet Pauline eventually would have too, so perhaps it doesn't matter. But the point is that there was a definite bud, on a second-generation plant, in December.²

Two more second-generation seedlings have budded for the first time in late February: 0716 Herbie Hind (son of 0239 Russ Teanale) and 0805 Triana Hill (daughter of 0234 Ross Koz). All three second-generation seedlings have the same known grandparent: 'White Gemini.' (This isn't necessarily meaningful, but it's not necessarily not meaningful either.)

L-R: 0716 Herbie Hind and 0805 Triana Hill, 25 February 2016.
Triana is possibly nothing to get excited about, but Herbie's bud is sort of nice, and I could at least imagine it opening into a nice bloom. We'll see. In both cases, the foliage is a little marked-up, but still slightly better than average,

L-R: 0716 Herbie Hind and 0805 Triana Hill.
and although Herbie isn't much to look at overall,

0716 Herbie Hind.
Triana is at least suckering a lot, and doesn't seem too bad.

0805 Triana Hill.
Whether Herbie and Triana wind up actually blooming in the next couple months or not, this is still a sign: the F2 show is going to start soon; the stagehands are already pulling back the curtains.

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¹ So far, Wes has produced 52 seedlings, nearly a third of which (17 of 52) were discarded due to scale. Only 20 survive overall (38%). Without wandering too far out into the statistical weeds, this is a much lower survival rate, and a much higher rate of scale infestation, than other seedlings' offspring have had.
This was especially upsetting to me, because a lot of Wes's seedlings have interesting foliage -- the leaves tend to be very shiny, flat, dark, and about as broad as they are long. They also often had an exaggerated heart shape, compared to other seedlings of the same age. It's possible that a few of those will still be scale-resistant enough to mature and bloom, and if not, maybe another batch of seedlings from some other parent (0273 Wes Coast having died a while ago, due to an accidental uprooting) will replicate their foliage.
² Which isn't record-setting speed, but out of 177 seedlings to produce buds so far, Pauline was the fifth-fastest. (The other four: 12 months from sow to bud for 0058 Betty Larsony, 14 months for 0415 Darby Dragons, 15 months for 0835 Brenda Dharling, and 15 months for 0282 Dave Trading. Blooming so early doesn't seem to be particularly desirable: Betty's first bud aborted, and then she took a couple years to follow it up with a bud that became an actual bloom, which was pretty crappy. Darby's bloom was fast but awful. Brenda dropped her bud and hasn't produced a replacement yet. Only Dave has produced a normal, reasonably attractive bloom soon after being sown. Also noteworthy: 0835 is so far the only seedling to produce a bud while still in a 3-inch pot; all the other seedlings have waited until they were in a 4-inch pot, at least. Until Brenda, I'd been assuming that it was somehow impossible for a 3-inch plant to bud, so even if she didn't actually bloom, and maybe never will, I'm still impressed with her.)

0835 Brenda Dharling, 31 December 2015.

Pretty picture: Calanthe rosea

Okay, well. This one's interesting insofar as it's a new genus for the blog. And it's an actual genus, too, not a mere nothogenus.

I kind of don't like it, though. It's not that it's doing anything wrong, but it reminds me of something we sold at the ex-job as an annual. I want to say Nemesia?¹ Whatever it was, it didn't like our greenhouse so much, and they didn't do well, and I didn't know why. This orchid looks just enough like whatever it was that just looking at it makes me mildly anxious and stressed out.²

My photo differs from a lot of the photos of Calanthe rosea on-line; it seems the flower petals are usually a bit flatter, and more elongated (e.g. one, two, three). I think the ID is still correct, because other sources have the flowers looking more like my photo, but they apparently don't always look like this. Maybe don't even usually look like this.

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¹ Image search was inconclusive. It's been at least seven years now; the memory has faded a bit. Nemesia is at least plausible.
² I haven't had to work with poinsettias in seven years now, but I honestly still get a little queasy if enough of them are around.

Schlumbergera seedling no. 208

208A is the first seedling to bloom from the 2014 batch of 'Caribbean Dancer' seedlings, numbers 195 to 220.¹ I'd hoped that I might get something a little new from this group. Even though the seed parent is 'Caribbean Dancer' again, I thought, maybe the pollen parent was different.

And 208A is a little unusual, in that it's not another orange/white or orange/pink,

but so far none of the 2014 seedlings are doing anything unprecedented.² I can't rule out the possibility that the 2014 batch of seedlings are also 'Caribbean Dancer' x NOID peach, in which case we'll have to wait even longer to see something interesting. I'm not going to despair just yet, though; we'll get a better idea what's going on as more blooms appear.³

Even if not a never before seen color, 208A was different enough to make me optimistic about TinEye. Maybe I'd get some different suggestions? And that hope was justified; it did in fact suggest some names I hadn't seen before. Don't know what we're going to do for names after 208A, though: I've looked ahead, and it's a very long, very orange road from here. I mean, things have been pretty orange all along, but I'm starting to burn out on the whole process and we still have at least 11 more seedlings to go so it sure would have been nice if they'd decided to show some variety about now.

*sigh*

You should also know that this is the second time I'm writing this post. The first time, I had a name picked out, and then after I thought about it for a couple days, I decided that I couldn't live with it after all. So I added some emergency names, because it was an emergency, and we're going again. The choices: Ciao, Cupcake, I Miss You, Padparadscha, Pink Disco Trilobite, Raspberry Possum, Rooster, Saltwater Taffy, Sweet Galaxy, Sweetie Darling, and Vintage Ribbons.

TinEye was bizarrely insistent on Cupcake, bringing it up five times: two, three, four, five. However, Cupcake is the name that I landed on in the first draft, then decided I couldn't live with, so there's no point in considering it further. It seems like it should work. I don't know why it doesn't.

Conversely, I like Sweet Galaxy a lot better than I probably ought to; I think I like each of the words separately, but don't care for them together.

Sweetie Darling is apparently another one of those names that's just going to come up over and over until I use it, though I think it might actually be more appropriate for an orange seedling, as I think of Edina Monsoon as wearing orange a lot more than I think of her as wearing pink.⁴ And if I've got a name that works for difficult to name orange seedlings, that I like well enough to keep considering, I suppose it should go to an orange seedling.⁵

I Miss You (also) seems a little melancholy. Not the worst thing ever, but it's not like I'm missing anybody in particular right now.

I was sort of interested in Vintage Ribbons, because it's true that cactus petals in general, and Schlumbergera petals specifically, have a sort of satiny quality to them. I can't point to anything about the name that makes it a bad fit, exactly, but I don't think it works for me.

If you have a crystal of aluminum oxide (corundum) that's colored blue by impurities, it's called a sapphire. If it's red, it's called a ruby. Padparadscha is what you get when the impurities tint it pink, orange, or colors in between. The search results from DuckDuckGo mostly lean pink, even light pink, whereas Google's results run a little darker and oranger, but the bloom is within the range of colors accepted as padparadscha, either way. This name made the list of finalists, in my first draft of this post, but I chose Cupcake because 1) Padparadscha is a pain to type, and 2) I'm trying to keep a lid on the number of non-English words. Which turn out to be sort of the same reason, in the long run.⁶

And that's maybe as good a reason as any to throw out Ciao, while we're at it, though it's common enough and short enough that I doubt it would cause the same problems.

The third finalist in the first draft was Rooster (also, also), which I find both off-putting and appealing. The color isn't actually a very good match (though the shape kind of is; the serration of the multiple petals kind of mimics the shape of a rooster's comb), but with allowances made for varying lighting conditions, sure, why not. I'm reluctantly leaving it off the list this time, more because I like all three remaining options better than because I have a specific problem with Rooster. Though I acknowledge that Rooster is silly and nonsensical and also possibly misleading as to color.

So that leaves us just the finalists, all from the emergency list. Pink Disco Trilobite was considered and rejected for 074A Vroom; Raspberry Possum was considered for 078A Art Party; Saltwater Taffy is a brand-new option.

I like all three, but since I have to drop two of them, Pink Disco Trilobite is longest (and maybe also a little inaccurate: I wouldn't say the flower is primarily pink), and while I love Saltwater Taffy the food, the name isn't actually specific about the color at all. I mean, I've seen green saltwater taffy before. So I guess this one is Raspberry Possum, which kind of surprises me, but the alternative is to write this post a third time. And I do not want to write this post a third time, so I will live with Raspberry Possum.

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¹ It made me happy to realize that, a year ago, I predicted this.
² 208A resembles the red/pinks 054A Helpful Gesture and 078A Art Party, and maybe also 074A Vroom; 217A resembles the orange-red/whites like 079A Yayoi Kusama and 099B Karma Cobra. 212A is yet another orange. I mean, it's a nice orange, but it's still just an orange.
³ And if nothing else, I should also have seedlings from the NOID white (numbers 118-142) and NOID magenta (169-194) coming up this year or next. I'm a little surprised that none of them have tried to bloom already.
⁴ (Image search mostly backs me up on this.)
⁵ Though this might be a good moment to mention that there's going to be another Absolutely Fabulous movie, to be released in July. Whether it will be any good or not is still an open question: the trailer spends like 45 seconds setting up a punchline that never actually arrives and I have no idea what they're trying to accomplish with it.
Also people are upset about a Caucasian actor being hired to play an Asian character, in the AbFab movie. There are a number of ways that could be executed, not all of them necessarily bad (though I am admittedly hard-pressed to think of a way in which an Asian character named "Huki Muki," portrayed by a Scottish actress, might wind up striking a blow against racism), but it sure looks like they're doing that thing people do nowadays where you put something in your movie that you know will upset someone, so they protest, and then you get free publicity when the press covers the protest. I mean, even if you think political correctness is all a bunch of crap and everybody's getting offended over nothing all the time, it's a little irksome that this works well enough to have become an actual marketing strategy. (It's not my actual position that political correctness is bullshit, though I feel like lately I'm seeing both the cynical insertion of offensive material in order to get free publicity for one's product, and, less often, the reverse, where advocacy groups get free publicity for their cause by objecting loudly to a perfectly innocent element of some popular cultural product. Both wind up perpetuating prejudice and discrimination, for the sake of a cynical grab at more money. It's gross.)
If I hear in July that this is actually a brilliant subversion of yellowface or something, then fine, maybe I'll watch anyway. But I'm not optimistic. (Rumor even has it that the character is intended to resemble Yayoi Kusama, and if they're mocking Kusama then I'm even more offended, because Kusama is awesome. Like, I pretty much want to grow up to be Yayoi Kusama.)
Which is another reason to hold off on Sweetie Darling; by July, I may not even still like Jennifer Saunders.
⁶ As I've explained before, I actually tend to like non-English words better than English ones, everything else being equal. I mean what are the odds that English just happens to have the most appealing word for every concept? Pretty damn slim.
There are two main problems with using a lot of non-English seedling names: one, because I haven't seen the words as often, it takes me a little longer to skim past them in a list, because there's that brief moment of what the fuck? for each unfamiliar word. (I do eventually get used to them. I barely trip on 035A Patito at all anymore.) The second reason is that I'm not sure but what having a non-English name might be a sales liability. Like, has no one ever requested 019A Belevenissen because it photographs poorly, or is it because nobody wants to try to type "belevenissen?" And Padparadscha is also a four-syllable, twelve-letter non-English word.
(To an English speaker, "belevenissen" looks like it should be the five-syllable bell-uh-ven-ISS-un, but I looked into it last year and it seems to actually be pronounced something like buh-lay-von-SUN; it more or less rhymes with "delay Johnson," though it's stressed differently.)

Anthurium no. 0512 "Landon Sky"

Landon's an improvement on 0537 Bridgette of Madison County, though just barely. Tough to get excited about, unless you're a fan of tiny inflorescences in colors you've seen a thousand times before, in which case he's amazing.

The newer leaves are pretty good,

and they've always been at least okay,

though I'm not sure what's going on with the spotty leaves in that last photo (especially the one pointing to the top left corner). The slightly blue-gray cast to the leaves is the normal wax they produce,¹ but I don't know why there should be any spots where the wax is missing. I mean, sometimes I rub the wax off in the process of checking to see whether a bump is scale or not, but I'd never make such neat, small, spots by doing that. They could also be drops of something oily from above, but I can't come up with anything that might plausibly be dripping.

If nothing else, the Anthurium seedlings are an endless source of mystery. Fairly boring mystery, but still mystery.

Landon's not a keeper, but since he's not harboring obvious colonies of scale or thrips, he'll probably get to stay for a while.

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¹ Like every other characteristic, leaf wax production varies from seedling to seedling, though it shows up so much better on darker leaves that it's tough to get much of a feel for how common it might be. It also changes sometimes, in that plants which hadn't previously been very waxy sometimes suddenly start making a lot, but I don't have any evidence to suggest why. I have theories, but haven't put much energy into investigating them, because the only way wax production matters to me at this point is that high-wax leaves are much tougher to photograph.

Pretty picture: Paphiopedilum liemianum

This one made me a little happy, then a little angry, then a little happy again.

A little happy, because it's pleasant enough to look at. I mean, it's not my favorite or anything, and I wouldn't call it pretty, but it's fine.

And then a little bit angry, because it was tagged "Paph lehmanii." That plant doesn't seem to exist, though there is a Pescatoria lehmannii. Which looks nothing like a Paphiopedilum, of course. (Though Pescatoria lehmannii is remarkably pretty; check it out.) Somehow or another, I managed to locate some photos of Paphiopedilum liemianum, which match up, so that's my guess for the ID here.

But then happy again, because I realized that it looked a lot like a NOID orchid from the 2012 show, so if I'm correct about the ID for this plant, then I've also probably identified that one. And it always feels good to resolve a long-standing problem like that, even one that's completely inconsequential.

The whole experience averages out, emotionally, to mildly-annoyed-but-I'll-get-over-it-shortly.

Anthurium no. 0366 "Maureen Biologist"

Nothing too unusual about Maureen. The blooms are smaller than I expected, but she's otherwise similar to her siblings 0365 Murray Hill (whitish spadix) and 0371 Deb Autry (small spathes, similar color). The spadix turned a little bit pink as it aged, which I think made it slightly prettier (at least more interesting), but you can judge for yourself.

The leaves are okay to good (I like the venation), though some of the newest ones have holes in them that I can't explain.

She offsets fine, too.

So really not a lot to say yet, even though she's bloomed. I like the blooms well enough that I've thought about moving her to a 6-inch pot, but so far, I'm not deeming her promotion-worthy. And that's about all I have to say about Maureen.

But that's okay, because I had something else to talk about: the progress, or lack thereof, at incorporating the genes from my recent Anthurium purchases, with "recent" being defined as "since 2013."

'Peppermint Gemini' (maybe)¹

I bought 'Peppermint Gemini' in March 2013. It's the only Anthurium with speckled spathes I've ever seen in person, and I was really excited about getting to play with those genes, but it's been a disappointment, because it never blooms.

Not literally, but close to it. The plant had one open bloom and one bud when I bought it; the bud eventually opened. It then went on to produce one bloom in July 2014. And that's it. I got six seedlings from the bloom that was open when I bought the plant, of which only one survives, 0389 Eileen N. Vation.

0389 Eileen N. Vation. Pot diameter: 4 inches (10 cm).
The second bloom got me 21 seedlings, of which four have survived. The third bloom got me 13 seedlings, with four surviving. And that is all.

'Peppermint Gemini' seedlings tend to be weak, by which I mean that they just sit there without getting any bigger, or they grow leaves that dry out immediately, or they just up and die for no reason. This could be my fault: it may be that I've potted them up before they're ready. If I ever get another chance to sow some 'Peppermint Gemini' seeds, I'll have to let them sit in the germination container longer and see if that helps.

In any case, even when they survive, 'Peppermint Gemini' seedlings don't impress. Of the nine survivors, only two have ever been good enough to move up to 4-inch pots: 0389 Eileen N. Vation and 0610 Nina Levin. Eileen has had an ongoing problem with scale² and will probably ultimately find herself in a landfill, wondering where it all went wrong. Nina has her shit more together but doesn't particularly impress. Neither has ever attempted to bud, though they're 29 and 24 months old, respectively, and 29 months is the current average age at first bud. So either of them could bud at any moment. Fingers crossed.

0610 Nina Levin. Pot diameter: 4 inches (10 cm).
There are no seedlings of 'Peppermint Gemini' waiting in the germination containers, nor any blooms from which seeds might eventually come.


'Joli'

I bought 'Joli' in March 2014, because the spathes are a very nice purple when they first open. I was then pleased to find out that it blooms constantly, is very easy to pollinate, and produces a ton of berries from every spadix. Just, like, a firehose of berries. 'Joli' is everything I could ever want from a parent, except:

The seeds have a terrible germination rate. Usually they're overrun by a fungus within a couple days. I don't have this problem with any other plant's seeds. As a result, though I've started at least 100 seeds from 'Joli,' I'm left with all of nine official seedlings.³ So 'Joli' hasn't been much help yet, on the genetic diversity front.

The oldest surviving seedling of 'Joli' is 1171 Chris of Hur, who will be a year old on March 7. Promising so far.

1171 Chris of Hur. Pot diagonal: 3 inches (7.5 cm).
I have 13 unofficial 'Joli' seedlings waiting to leave the germination containers, though only about half of those look good. There are ripe berries on the plant as I type this, plus I don't even know how many pollinated spadices with unripe berries, so the number of 'Joli' seedlings should climb slowly but steadily for the foreseeable future, just with lots of incidental fungus.


'Midori'

'Midori' was of interest because it's green, and I didn't already have a green. I bought it by mail order in June 2014. It was easy to bloom. Pollination didn't result in as many berries as I expected, but there were still some, and the seeds mostly germinated once I sowed them. The problem in this case is that 'Midori' died on me, 13 months after I bought it. Then the seedlings weren't very vigorous, so most of them also died before I could transplant them,⁴ and the seedlings that were strong enough to transplant have mostly not been strong enough to live. There have been eleven official seedlings, four of which survive. The oldest survivor is 1094 Ella Vawaydego, who is a little over 13 months old.

1094 Ella Vawaydego. Pot diagonal: 3 inches (7.5 cm).
There's only one 'Midori' seedling still in the germination containers, but it's looking awfully unsteady so far. I'm thinking 'Midori' will have to accept whatever genetic legacy its four current seedlings can produce.


NOID green-and-pink

The NOID green-and-pink (which might be the variety 'Fantasy Love' but it wasn't tagged and I have no idea really) I bought in February 2015 was strange in multiple ways at once: not only multiple colors in the same spathe (green, pink, white), but the pink follows the major veins in the spathe, any green in spathes is unusual,⁵ the spathe is a weird saddle shape I've not seen elsewhere, it blooms plentifully, and the spathes are large. So it had a lot of possible traits it could impart to the gene pool here, even if I'm not necessarily that crazy about the plant itself.

And, of course, being the one I'm not that crazy about, it's probably been the most successful introduction. It blooms a lot, the blooms are easily pollinated, the seeds germinate well, and the germinated seedlings seem pretty vigorous so far. Twelve official seedlings, all of which are still with us. They were all sown in August 2015; some were potted up in December and some were potted up in February.⁶ The best-looking one of the group is probably 1369 Tahara, who is now about seven months old.

1369 Tahara. Pot diagonal: 3 inches (7.5 cm).
Another 12 or 13 seedlings are in the germination containers now, awaiting names and numbers, plus I have a bunch of berries ripening. The plant also throws out a new bloom every so often, so the NOID green-pink should have an ongoing genetic contribution to make for quite a while.


NOID dark red

And finally the NOID dark red, which I wanted for its foliage: the leaves are huge and dark. It had a couple blooms on it when I bought it in March 2015, though they were both too old to pollinate, and it hasn't produced any new buds since. (It did do something this winter, at one point, which could have been a new bloom or a new leaf, but whatever it was died before I could tell what it was going to turn into.)

Too soon to tell whether it's genes might be useful, but the lack of blooming is a concern, and obviously there are no seedlings to speak of yet. I'm not optimistic, but I'm willing to wait a while before I give up.

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¹ ID is a guess; there was no name on the tag, but there was a tag saying that Twyford had produced it, and I could only locate one Twyford plant with red blotches on a white background, so I'm assuming that that's the one I've got.
² The reason she looks so sparse and lopsided in her photo is because sometimes I just remove the affected leaves if they appear to have scale, instead of throwing plants out entirely. It's not clear that this has ever actually resolved a scale infestation for me, but in the moment, it's less work than throwing plants away, so I'll probably keep doing it.
³ "Official seedlings" being the ones that looked promising enough for me to take them out of the germination container and give them their own pot. Once that happens, they're assigned a name and ID number and go on the spreadsheets. Trying to keep track of each individual seed from sowing to blooming is too much even for me, and I've never even been tempted to try.
⁴ Some of this was also my fault, for letting the vermiculite in the germination containers dry out too much.
⁵ In commerce, not in nature. In nature, a lot of Anthuriums produce green spathes. But customers don't buy them, so there's no incentive for wholesalers to produce them. It was difficult to find a 'Midori' to buy, and when I did, I got it from a business that deals mainly in cut flowers, where green is a more commercially viable color.
⁶ Which is why all twelve are still around: they haven't had time to die yet.

Anthurium no. 0115 "Erlene Adopter"

The seed which would eventually be known as 0115 Erlene Adopter was sown in December 2011. In April 2014, I divided it into eight different pots. Partly this was because I couldn't be sure that there was only a single seedling in the original pot; I don't pots multiple seedlings together anymore, but I did sometimes when I first started trying to grow Anthuriums from seed, because I didn't expect many of the seedlings to survive.¹

Of those eight pots (number 0115, and 0580 to 0586), three have produced blooms (0115 Erlene Adopter, 0580 Marsha Marsha Marsha, 0586 Vera Special), one budded but the bud didn't fully develop (0581 Adam All), one just never quite managed to grow much and was thrown out eight months after the division (0583 Manny Nuff), and the remaining three plants are still around but haven't budded yet (0582 Lucinda Forest, 0584 Lee Machetti, and 0585 Twitch).

There's plenty of reason to assume that the four plants to have budded are all offsets of the same seedling. The three blooms are indistinguishable,²

(L-R): 0115 Erlene Adopter, 0580 Marsha Marsha Marsha, 0586 Vera Special.
as are the four buds,

Top row: 0580 Marsha Marsha Marsha, 0581 Adam All, 0115 Erlene Adopter. Bottom: 0586 Vera Special.
Adam didn't progress much beyond where it is in the photo, so I know the picture isn't directly comparable, but trust me, it was headed toward the exact same shade of orange as the other buds.
and all seven survivors even do the same weird thing with their leaves, where parts suddenly go yellow in a symmetrical sort of way, though I don't have a good picture of Erlene, specifically, doing that.³

It's possible that some of the three plants which haven't budded yet might be genetically different, but Erlene, Marsha, Adam, and Vera all appear to be clones of the same original seedling, a seedling which is an offsetting monster.⁴

Erlene, last September, after producing a fuckton of new offsets to replace the ones I removed in 2014. Pot size is 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter.
What all this means is that, without ever intending to, I find myself with a bunch of copies of the same plant, and it's a plant that happens to offset a ton, so I should have no trouble making a bunch more whenever I want. It also appears to be unusually resistant to scale. (I don't think I've ever seen a scale insect on any of the eight divisions, which is damn near miraculous.) It's not immune to thrips, but it's at least better than most; it produces pollen and can be pollinated; and the blooms are reasonably large and nicely-colored.

So. Although I would like to know what's causing the yellowing first, Erlene is likely to be the first Anthurium seedling I offer for sale. That wouldn't necessarily happen this year; still a lot of stuff to work out w/r/t Anthurium selling. But the Erlenes will probably be on the list whenever it gets made.

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¹ This was a huge mistake. If you ever decide to try to breed some of your own plants together, give them all their own individual pots. Yes, you'll need more pots and soil that way, and yes, you'll probably wind up throwing out a lot of soil, but wasting soil is better than the complications that result from making seedlings share pots.
² They're actually even harder to tell apart than you'd expect from the composite photo. The differences in shade are the result of them being photographed at different ages (the spathes are slightly darker and redder when they first open) and under different lighting conditions.
³ Here are leaves from 0580 Marsha Marsha Marsha (top) and 0581 Adam All (bottom), though:

These are both extreme examples. Normally the yellow is just a few streaks on either side of the midrib, and they don't connect to one another to make the netlike patterns you see in the photos, but the subtler yellowing doesn't show up well in photos, so.
⁴ My bet would be that Lucinda, Lee, and Twitch are also clones of Erlene: though all three are a bit stunted by comparison to the other four, they've all done the weird yellowing thing, which I've only seen on other divisions of Erlene's, and the leaves of all seven plants are of similar shape, color, and texture besides. Should they ever bloom, I'll really, really know that they're 0115 clones, but I'm pretty sure anyway.