A large growing beauty by Stephen Hoppin can grow to a 24 inch rosette. The color is black to dark chocolate brown, glossy with wavy, silvery cross bands. Some silver shading in the leaves. Leaf tips turn downward. 'Ebony Beauty' x (x Roseus)

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This Ed Edmiston hybrid is a cultivar of ‘Jet Age’ x lacerdae ‘Menescal’ having 10+ lanceolate leaves forming a medium plant to 12″ in diameter with a full round, open, flat rosette.  The plants are larger than Cryptanthus lacerdae ‘Menescal,’ but lacks the long stolons.  The light chocolate background leaf color is marked with silvery grey central and marginal longitudinal stripes.  The bottom of the leaf is covered in a medium dense lineated white scurf.

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.

A terrestrial species named for the State of Bahia in Brazil, but found throughout the northeastern coastal Atlantic rain forest and inland caatinga from the States of Paraíba south to the State of Bahia.  Discovered in 1939 by Mulford Foster in the highlands, an area called caatinga which is similar to a mesquite, it was the first known Cryptanthus species to have been found in shaded, semi-dry locations.  This species is quite different from other species in the family as it has very spiny, stiff, succulent leaves.  Propagating from long stolons up to 12 inches long, the caulescent plant forms a very loose, open round shape up to 12 inches in diameter.  This cultivar is a red form of the species with Selby accession number of SEL 1987-0158.  The offsets start out as bright chartreuse green with just a faint coloring of rust red to the leaves and as they mature the leaves turn a dark rust red.  In a greater amount of sun the leaves can turn an Indian red to brown-red.

An interesting species hailing from Bahia Brazil described in 1993.  The plant is very similar to Cryptanthus bahianus being stoloniferous, having stiff, narrow leaves with undulating margins, and colored a brownish-copper, but less succulent in nature.  A mature plant can attain a diameter of 10-inches.

This is the Type form ex Elton Leme.

(C. ‘Diverse Pink’ x ‘Cascade’) This is an outstanding Jim Irvin hybrid of exceptional merit. In his words "A vigorous and superb hot-pink plant with chartreuse mixed in.  Giant and full, with lots of leaves.  A ‘must have’ plant."

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