Jim Irvin’s cross of zonatus ‘Silver’ x ‘Ocean Mist’ is one of his best in our opinion.  Dark brown leaves are almost entirely coated with a fuzzy silver banding to the point of nearly becoming solid silver.  The brown shows through as narrow, zig-zag bands.  A really pretty plant and a large grower too.

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This Carole Richtmyer hybrid, a cross of sinuosus ‘High ‘N Mighty’ x ‘Hawaiian Beauty‘ introduced in 1991, is still a real beauty to add to your Cryptanthus collection.  This large growing plant, to 18″ in diameter, has a round open rosette form.  The many leaves, 18+, are oblanceolate, 1.75″ wide, and are remarkable for their clear red color, green under mottling, silver bands in good light, and light scurfing underneath.

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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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A Jim Irvin hybrid, a cultivar of ‘Kamehameha’ x zonatus 'Silver' and grex mate to 'Alternating Current' and 'Circuit Breaker,' that grows very large in a dramatic, flat, oval rosette of wide leaves, boldly banded with silver over a purplish-brown base.  One of the largest growing Cryptanthus, reaching about 30 inches across with leaves 3 inches wide.  A stunning beauty that will be a star in your collection.

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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

A species from the southeast coastal jungles in the State of Bahia, Brazil has many long narrow linear-lanceolate leaves forming a loose 16-inch diameter open rosette plant.  The leaf axils are rosy-brown red fading to green tips.  The leaves have small loosely spaced spines with a widely spaced crisped edge.  The offsets start appearing at the base of the plant before flowering and towards the crown during and after flowering.

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.

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This is an undescribed species from near Fernando, Bahia, Brazil, collected by Wally Berg and John Anderson, along with Pedro Nahoum in 1997.  It is thought that this may be a red form of Cryptanthus grazielae.  A large grower to about 24 inches with broad, glabrous, coppery colored leaves.  A rather impressive species. 

This plant also has the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens accession number of SEL1997-0355.

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