This is a 2007 cultivar of ‘Durrell’ x ‘San Juan’ by Stephen Hoppin.  The shape is a loose rosette up to 10 inches tall and 24 inches across with shiny green leaves that are wavy with serrated edges.  The leaves have an olive green color that has a hint of bronze along the edge and slight scurfing on the underside of the leaves.

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This hybrid of 'Yara' x 'Bag of Tricks' by Stephen Hoppin has 12+ lanceolate leaves forming a small plant 6" to 7" in diameter with a full round shape.  The leaves are pink-red in color with undertones of green bands covered with an even silver-white dusting of trichomes.  The plant matures out to have a pattern more or less typical of Cryptanthus lacerdae.  The leaves recurve downwards from the center of the plant with tips twisting slightly up, while the undersides of the leaves are covered in a medium dense amount of silver-white trichomes with some leaf impressions.  This Cryptanthus really does live up to its name!

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A species formerly in the genus Cryptanthus that could easily be taken as a Dyckia in its foliar aspect.  Native to the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil where it grows an arid existence.  The leaves are stiff, slightly succulent, and straight, about a half inch wide at the base and tapering to a point, bearing small, stiff, outward-facing, marginal red-tipped green spines.  It can attain a size of 18 inches in diameter at maturity.   The leaves are a shiny, glabrous green with a hint of red at the leaf base at the point that they grasp the main stem.  The underside of the leaves are covered with a very fine lineated scurf of trichomes and a heavier covering on the leaf petiole.  Leaf impressions can be seen on both sides of the leaves.  The fragrant flowers are white.  This clone carries the Selby accession number of SEL 1994-0275.

*VIPP plants are Offsets