@Panama74 welcome! So glad to hear that these are still out and about in their native habitat. This is the most prosperous Anthurium in my collection. I have not had luck pollinating it, I have tried several times with no success. But I keep trying. I have much better success with propagating it by division. My form is very black for the most part, and it has a LOT of very aberrant leaves. Lots of different shapes. Some are round, some are elongate, some are very narrow, some have a ruffled edge. I have been told (by people who are MUCH MORE knowledgeable about the scientific aspect than I am....I am just a very old lady who has been in this hobby a long time) that my original plant, being imported in the early 2000's, is much less likely to have sustained hybridization with other forms of papillilaminum than some of the ones coming out of different sources today. I find it very interesting that it may be a natural hybrid with ochranthum. I had not heard that before. I am so glad that there are folks like you out there doing this field work to document these rare species. So many people in this hobby today are just out to impost plants, chop them up and resell them. I am a long term grower. I can share on one hand the number of people I have sold, traded or just given a specimen of my Papi to. Its not because I am selfish. I am in my early 60's and I think I need to start distributing some of the plants that I have been growing in some cases since the early 1990's. But I am not in it to give it to people who are in it to make a quick buck. I have been looking into donating specimens to botanical gardens in order to give them a datable record of some of the plants I grow for the future. I am one of the very few private collectors (apparently) that have an unadulterated specimen of Anthurium spectabile in their collections. I have been doing all I can to distribute this species and bring it back...selling/trading/giving away seeds and plants...I donated a plant to the Fairchild Gardens in Miami because they did not have one. I hope you will be a regular contributor to this forum. There are not many people on this site interested in aroids. Which may be a good thing, or a bad thing as they have exploded in popularity (and PRICE) for the past couple years. We need more voices like yours.
