Anthurium Mother Plants Used in Hybridization

Anthurium Mother Plants Used in Hybridization

Nice Plants Good Pots has spent years collecting, growing, trading, and breeding Anthuriums. Through this work, we have intentionally sought out material from some of the most important growers and lineages in cultivation while continuing to build our own breeding program around plants we believe are worth preserving, breeding, and sharing. 

Every plant has a story, but not every plant becomes central to a breeding program.

The plants documented here are the Anthurium mother plants we have used in hybridization. We are sharing them here to give growers and collectors a closer look at the seed-bearing stock behind our work, along with the lineage, form, veining, and other traits that make these plants important in cultivation. Many of these plants are not just visually significant. They are reliable workers that repeatedly prove useful in breeding.

Mother plants are not just the seed-bearing half of a cross. In our experience, they can strongly influence vigor, gestation timing, reliability, and even the probability of variegation showing up in offspring. That is one reason certain mother plants get used again and again in hybrid work. They are not just beautiful plants. They are dependable.

Some of the plants on this page are foundational because of collector significance or historic lineage. Others are central because they carry seed reliably, mature crosses well, and continue producing worthwhile offspring over time. In many cases, the best mother plants are not simply the most dramatic on paper. They are the ones that perform.

This page will continue to grow as our breeding program develops.

Joe + Jacob

Last updated June 2025

Why Mother Plants Matter in Anthurium Breeding

In Anthurium hybridization, the seed donor is not interchangeable with the pollen donor. The mother stock can have a major effect on how reliably a cross carries, how long seed takes to mature, and how certain traits may express in offspring. That is part of why mother plants deserve to be documented clearly.

For more background on how these plants function in breeding, see our guides on:

•  How Anthurium Pollination Works
• How Long Anthurium Seeds Take to Develop
• Understanding Breeding Generations in Anthuriums
• Common Anthurium Terms Explained
• Anthurium Anatomy Guide for Growers.
  

Mother Plants in the Nice Plants Good Pots Breeding Program

Below is a working archive of the Anthuriums used in hybridization at Nice Plants Good Pots, including foundational breeding plants, selected seed donors, and important lineage material used across our program.

Foundation Mother Plants

Doc Block Lineage Mother Plants

Tim Anderson Lineage and Related Material

Papillilaminum and Related Breeding Stock

Selected NOIDs and Working Stock

Historic and Collector Source Material

1) 'Anaconda'

A foundational working plant in our collection, used for its strong presence, distinctive form, and value as seed-bearing stock in hybrid work.

2) 'Anaconda' X 'Doc Block Purple F2'

3) 'Anaconda' x Papillilaminum 'Ree Gardens' 

A working hybrid that brings together the stature and character of ‘Anaconda’ with the strong collector appeal and breeding significance of the Doc Block line.

4) Angustilobum

Important as a tri-lobed species reference and for the way narrower, more directional foliage can inform hybrid work.

5)'AOS' x 'Tim's Black'

A strong lineage piece combining dark collector foliage with historically important Tim Anderson material.

6) AOS 'Novelty G form'

A strong lineage piece combining dark collector foliage with historically important Tim Anderson material.

7) 'Besseae AFF'

8) 'Besseae AFF' x  'Tim Anderson Stripey Mag Pap'

9) 'Caycee' x  'Griege'

10) 'Cerrocampanense'

11) 'Circus Peanuts'

Notable for its historic parentage and long-standing collector interest. This is an old plant that is also known as 'Mike's Goliath' 

12) 'Costa Rica Sp. Ruffle'

13) 'Costa Rican Crystal'

14) 'Crystal Mag Variegated'

15) 'Crystal Queen #1'

A selected mother plant retained for its veining, and slight ruffles around the leaf margin. 

' Crystal Queen #2'

Another selected form used to preserve variation and allow comparison within the Crystal Queen lineage.

'Crystal Queen #3'

16) Dark & Stormy

A key Nice Plants Good Pots hybrid line that we used a lot, valued for dark foliage and strong shape.

17) 'Delta Mike'

A notable working plant in the program, used where robust form and prominent veining. This was part of our original 'Mikes Yard line' 

18) 'Doc Block Purple F2' x 'Tim Anderson Mag Pap'

19) 'Doc Block Purple F2'

A major plant in the collection and a central part of our breeding program, used for its strong emergent coloration, mature foliage character, and continued influence across modern Anthurium hybridization. Our stock predates Jeff Block's 'Michelle' line. This was one of the earliest mother plants that we collected.

20) 'Doc Block Red F2'

An important companion to the purple line, kept for its distinctive emergent coloration.

21) Doriyaki Silver

Used for its strong silver influence and round compact shape. 

22) Doriyaki Silver x 'Doc Block Purple F2'

23) Doriyaki silver x 'Doc Block Purple F2'

24) Doriyaki x 'Doc Block Purple F2 #3'

25) 'Doc Block Red F2' x Lux

26) 'FLAT SINUS NOID Dark Magician'

A useful working plant where fused or flatter sinus traits and dark foliage character are of particular interest. This is one of the most distinctive plants we've come across. 

27) Forgettii

Important as a reference point and for the round shape and fused sinus. 

28) Forgettii x 'Tim Anderson Dark Mag'

29) 'Golden Child'

30) 'Hoffmannii X'

31) 'Hoffmannii X Butterfly'

A mutated or selected extension of the 'Hoffmannii X' line, especially notable for more expressive ruffled leaf margins , prominent veining and colorful emergent leafs

32) 'Indo-Crystal pap'

33) 'Indo- Clarinervium Hybrid'

34) 'Mikes Mag Pap Dark'

35) 'Non-Regale NOID'

36) Ochranthum 'Big O'

37) Orchanthrum 'Bumpy'

38) 'Panama D-Stem NOID'

39) 'Dripillilaminum'

40) 'Ft. Sherman #1'

41) 'Ft. Sherman #2'

42) 'New Pap #1'

43) 'Nice Pap #1'

44) 'Nice Pap #3'

45) 'Nice Pap #7'

46) 'Nice Pap #8'

47) 'Nice Pap #28'

48) 'Nice Pap #50'

49) 'Nice Pap #69'

50) 'Nice Pap #100'

51) 'Pap JV RL' x 'Fort Sherman'

52) 'Papillilaminum 'Ree Gardens' x 'Doc Block Purple F2'

53) 'Phat Pap'

54) 'Pink Panama'

55) 'Puffy Pap'

56) 'Ralph Lynam'

57) 'Red Flower pap'

58) 'Ree Gardens Pap'

59) 'VSP Pap Hybrid'

60) 'Portillae NSE Dewey Fisk Clone'

61) 'Ralph Lynam NOID'

62) 'Ree Dresslerrii' x Pap

63) 'Ree Hoffmannii'[John Banta NOID]

64) Ree Non-Besseae

65) 'Ree Pap' x 'Ree Hoffmannii #2'

66) 'Rotundatum X'

67) 'Rotundatum X' x 'Doc Block Purple F2 #1'

68) 'Rotundatum X' x 'Doc Block Purple F2 #2'

69) 'Rotundatum X' x 'Doc Block Purple F2 #5'

70) 'Rotundatum X' x 'Doc Block Purple F2 #6'

71) 'Shovel Head'

72) 'Silver Peru'

73) 'SKG Grey'

74) 'SKG Red Crystal x Mag'

75) 'Stripey Mag Pap'

76) 'Stripey Mag Pap' x 'Rotundatum X'

77) 'Swampmanii #1'

78) 'Swampmannii #2'

79) 'Swampmannii #3'

80) 'Swampmannii #4'

81) 'Swampmannii Dark or Black'

82) 'Swampmannii Long'

83) Swampmannii Long F2

84) 'Swampmannii Orange #2'

85) 'Swampmannii Purple'

86) 'Swampmannii Red'

87) 'Swampmannii Red #2'

88) 'Tim Anderson 420 Dark Mag'

89) 'Tim Anderson Crystal Mag x Tim's Black'

90) 'Tim Anderson Mag Pap #2'

91) 'Tim Anderson Mag Pap #3'

92) 'Tim Anderson Mag Pap Long Dark'

93) 'Tim Anderson Mag Pap' x 'Doc Block Purple F2'

94) Waroc 'ree gardens' x pap 'ree gardens' 

95) 'Yellow Berry'