- First described
- 2024
- Type
- single clone
- Cultivar
- 'purple red, tall'
Origin
Selected from a Mike-bred pheno-hunt of hundreds of Stone Co MS alata seedlings. Got full sun on the edge of a community tray, which let the color trait become visible.
Standout traits
- Solid red coloration extending to the bottom of the petiole — unusual.
- Dark red, possibly nigropurpurea-class.
- Colors up easier than the proven dark clones MK A28 / MK A58.
- Divisions colored up in the first season post-division — atypical.
Standout traits
- Solid red coloration *all the way to the bottom of the petiole* — uncommon trait.
- Dark red — possibly nigropurpurea-class.
- Colors up easier than the proven dark clones MK A28 and MK A58 — atypical for the darker forms.
- Divisions colored up the first season after dividing — atypical (most need a year of establishment first).
- Selected from a community-tray edge plant that received unobstructed full sun.
Cultivation
Color requires direct full sun. Mike notes most of his alatas in community trays don't color because of mutual shading; this clone happened to be on the sunny edge of the tray.
Photos (5)
Naming
Descriptive — purple-red color + tall trap form.