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.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

This Stephen Hoppin hybrid, a cultivar of ‘Stephen Hoppin’ x ‘Richard Lum,’ is a large, flattish, star-like rosette to 24 inch diameter.  Slightly scurfed, undulating foliage with tangerine, pink, and green mottled tones, or vibrant pink in stronger light, is marked with two defined longitudinal stripes running the entire length of the leaf and slightly scurfed beneath with some cross banding.

 

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A Carole Richtmyer hybrid, a cultivar of 'Earth Angel' x bromelioides 'Red form,' having 18+ lanceolate leaves maturing to a full round form 12-inches in diameter.  The dark and lime green mottled leaves are covered in a very light lineated scurf as the red leaf base clasp the stem.  In stronger light, the leaves will take on colors of orange and red, besides the greens.  Light well defined lines of trichomes cover the undersides of the leaves.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

This Carole Richtmyer hybrid is a cultivar of ('Manoa Mist' x 'Clyde Jackson') x 'Earth Angel' having 12+ lanceolate leaves forming a  small plant to 8 inches in diameter with a full round shape.  The light green leaves edged and marbled with dark olive green and highlighted with light orange are covered with indistinct silver-white barring centered mostly on the midrib and not quite making it to the leaf edges.  The slightly wavy crisped leaves are highly recurved and twist at the tip to reveal the lineated medium dense scurf underneath.

*Offsets available

A variegated sport of Cryptanthus acaulis ‘Roseus’ (syn. var. ruber) discovered in 1981 by Ton Koning in his Novio Nursery, Nijmegen, Netherlands and later marketed by Novio. 

The names ‘Le Rey’ and “Koning” both mean “the King.”  Small, soft pink color on marginated leaves even in low light with broken green centers, and waving undulation with down-turned tips

Harvey Kendall hybrid of unknown parentage.  A large plant  exceeding 24-inches in diameter.  The bronze to chocolate brown leaves are covered in a random broken bars and waves.  The lanceolate leaves are densely serrated with fine teeth and crisped waves.

 

This Ed Edmiston hybrid, registered by Terry Hardouin, is a cultivar of 'Peachy Keen' x 'Brimstone' and grex mate to 'Redy Edy,' and 'Terry's Wild Heart.'  The plant matures to an open, round, large rosette to 18 inches in diameter.  About 15 recurving, broad (2.5" wide), wavy, dark burgundy leaves, randomly mottled black with slight silver-scurfed cross-banding and some foliage crenulation (longitudinal ridges).  Rosette flattens at blooming.

This Carole Richtmyer hybrid is one of two cultivars of sinuosus x ‘Lirico,’ the other being ‘Pink Floyd,’ having 25+ elliptical lanceolate leaves forming a medium plant to 12″ in diameter with an open round shape.  The deep mottled red and green leaves have a covering of moderate scurf towards the bases and leaf tips.  It is easy to grow and very prolific.  It was recognized as the Best New Introduction of 1995.

An Ed Edmiston hybrid having 10+ lanceolate leaves forming a medium plant to 18" in diameter with an open round star shape.  The leaves are purple-brown in color with infrequent green color breaks and marked with the typical scurf pattern of Cryptanthus lacerdae.  The leaf edges are only lightly crisped and slightly roll out and down from the central margin.  The leaves arch up and out from the center curving down at the tips and only sometimes twisting to reveal the medium dense white scurf underneath.  A really spectacular plant especially when allowed to grow on for a season or two into a multi-headed specimen.

A Cryptanthus species originally found in Potiraguá from the southeastern region of the State of Bahia in Brazil.  The plant has many long narrow lanceolate leaves with a sunken midrib 1/4-inch wide forming a loose 16-inch diameter open rosette plant.  The leaves are bright celery green with small medium spaced spines the entire length with a wavy edge.  The offsets start appearing from the base before flowering and up towards the crown during and after flowering.