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 cultivar of Cryptanthus acaulis var. ruber is a small full round plant with 30+ leaves that attains a size of 8-inches in diameter.  The creamy coffee colored leaves, in the proper light blushes pink in the center, have a faint center ridge visible and are sparsely scaled near the leaf base.  The underside is fused in fine lineated stripes of scurf.

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