Anthurium antolakii ('BVEP')

Anthurium 'Black Velvet Eastern Panama' aka 'BVEP' aka antolakiii. This plant is a seed-grown specimen that was acquired during the plant's first introduction to the aroid hobby. I affectionately refer to this plant as my 'Bay Area BVEP' as it was originally grown by Esmé of bayareafrogs.com (IG: @bayareafrogs) before coming to my collection in Spring of 2023. After several attempts to self this plant, it has come to fruition. Selfed Anthurium is a topic that routinely comes up in discussion within the collectors' community with much controversy. While some well-respected collectors maintain that selfing a plant will result in overall weaker offspring or inferior genetics, many well-versed growers have also sought out and grow selfed specimens in our collections, as it is not universally the case that a selfed seed/seedling will result in weaker or subordinate plants. If your seed, given amiable conditions of high humidity and warm temperatures (70º+), fails to grow or exhibits detrime