This Jim Irvin hybrid is a cultivar of Cryptanthus zonatus ‘Silver’ x ‘Peaches’ with 12+ broadly elliptical leaves with dense serration, wavy undulation, and channeled cross sections.  A medium-large plant, to a 17″ diameter with a base color of rose on new foliage and lavender green on older leaves, is heavily scurfed with dark banding lightly distributed over the leaves and has an overall oval shape.

A hybrid cultivar of Cryptanthus ‘Hapa Haole’ x ‘Elaine’ by Australian, David Cross.  A full rosette of leaves to about 18 inches across.  The leaves are banded with silver over a background color of dark brown to reddish-brown, with slightly wavy margins.

This Jim Irvin hybrid, one of four cultivars of ‘Fine Feathers’ x zonatus ‘Silver,’ its grex mates being:  ‘Audacity,’ 'Unabashed,’ and ‘Vanity,’ has a large, to 22” in diameter, overall oval shape.  The crisped undulating rich mahogany brown leaves, in good light, have a white fading flame-stitch pattern radiating outwards from the center of the plant to their tips and are heavily scurfed underneath.

 

This Larry Giroux hybrid is a cultivar of ‘Lirico’ x ‘Tabasco’ having 20+ linear-lanceolate leaves forming a medium plant 12″ in diameter with a full round shape.  Lime green margined with dark green and mottled, the entire leaf length is suffused with pink-red as it reaches maturity.  The undersides of the leaves have a light lineated scurf of white trichomes.

This Carole Richtmyer hybrid is a cultivar of (‘Monty’ x beuckeri) x (sinuosus x ‘Lirico’) having 10+ lanceolate leaves forming a medium plant to 12″ in diameter with an upright open round shape.  The leaves are mottled red and green with fine white scurf heaviest in the leaf axils.  The undersides of the leaves have a light lineated white scurf.

A Jim Irvin hybrid named for a longtime active bromeliad enthusiast of the Caloosahatchee Bromeliad Society of Fort Myers, Florida, a cultivar of ‘Icecile’ x ‘Black Mystic,’ has 14+ lanceolate leaves forming a medium-large plant 20″ in diameter with a strong oval form, deep forest green in color with banding the entire length and edge to edge with narrow silver bands set widely apart.  The undersides have heavy silver scurf.

A really spectacular Jim Irvin hybrid, any time we offer this Cryptanthus, we sell out immediately.  This cultivar of ‘Pink Brocade’ x ‘Kit Hilbers,’ and grex mate to ‘Rapunzel,’ ‘Rumpelstiltskin,’ and ‘Rusty Rose,’ has 12+ lanceolate, densely serrated leaves with a center ridge in cross-section.  It is medium-large to 22″ in an open oval shape with shades of mahogany, purple, and red overlaid with an edge to edge banding in white, becoming gold with age, and broader to the center.  The underneath is covered with dense white scurf.

This is a cultivar of ‘Richard Lum’ x ‘Stephen Hoppin’ released by Steve Hoppin in 2007 and a grex mate to ‘Ziggy Stardust.’  The wavy leaves are bright green in color and have dark green mottling.  The leaf edges are reddish bronze in color and a central bronze colored stripe.  The leaves are triangular in shape and are densely serrated.  A large growing plant up to 20 inches across and 12 inches tall form a full open round shape.

This Carole Richtmyer hybrid is one of two cultivars of Cryptanthus ‘Rita Padden’ x lacerdae ‘Menescal,’ the other being ‘Stephen Hoppin,’ having 18+ linear-lanceolate leaves forming a medium plant to 12″ in diameter with a full round shape.  Green-brown in color with the typical scurf pattern of Cryptanthus lacerdae, that is, a central triangle of scurf outlined with a non-scurf margin outlined with scurf to the leaf edge.  Offsets are produced on 4″ to  6″ long stolons.

This is a mystery plant of unknown parentage by an unknown hybridizer.  Given that though, it is a wonderful Cryptanthus to have in your collection.  It has 10+ 1.75 inch wide lanceolate leaves forming a medium-large plant to 18-inch diameter with an open round shape.  The light golden brown leaves are marked with scurf heaviest towards the base and radiating towards the tips with undefined light barring that disappears towards the tips.  The leaves slightly twist revealing the medium dense scurf on the underside.

This Jim Irvin hybrid is one of two cultivars of ‘Melanie’ x zonatus ‘Silver,’ the other being ‘Marathon,’ having 10+ lanceolate leaves forming a large plant to 27″ in diameter with an open round shape.  Chestnut red, the midrib and across the leaf can be blotched with olive green in lower light, with wavy banding the entire length and edge to edge.  The underside has heavy white scurf.

This Larry Giroux hybrid is a cultivar of ‘Little Bunnis’ x ‘Frostbite’ having 10+ lanceolate leaves forming a medium plant to 18″ in diameter with an open round to oval shape.  The lime green leaves are mottled with darker green, heavier at the edges, suffused with pink-red, and wavy barring extending the length of the leaves and edge to edge.  The leaves have medium dense white scurf underneath.