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.

Found in the collection of Living Colors Nursery, in Florida, this sport of Cryptanthus 'Red Baron' is an albomarginated form of the plant having somewhat glossy leaves with wavy margins.  The wide leaves have green mottling covered in a bright pink veneer.  The undersides of the leaves have a light silver scurf.  The plants flatten out at anthesis and can reach 12 to 14 inches across.

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A spiny dwarf shrub from South Africa. Gray-blue to olive green branches with numerous reddish brown spines. Branches at a small size. Can grow to over 12 inches in height. Puts on a nice shows of yellow flowers when blooming. This is considered the minor form.

A Tropiflora hybrid with our best red rosea (formerly meziana). These are running the gamut from silver to red, some with scurfing, some without, all nice.

Its range, from the Chihuahuan desert of Mexico to the Big Bend area of Texas is pretty harsh, rocky and arid. In cultivation this species will grow to about 18 inches in a rosette of narrow leaves with scalloped, spiny margins. The normally green and silver coloration can blush shades of vivid red in strong light or full sun. A very hardy and easy species to grow.

 Monadenium rhizphorum, a  globose African succulent with a branching habit. Multiple short spineless branches create a mound-like effect. Has small green leaves with purple highlights. Easy to grow and attractive.

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A beautiful hybrid of (carolinae x concentrica) x 'Charm' by Ray Coleman that will no doubt become a popular landscape plant. It is a large grower, to over 30 inches across with many leaves in a symmetrical rosette. The older, lower leaves are apple green with some concentric banding, but the upper leaves are deep red with green mottling. The center flushes bright red at anthesis.

*VIPP offering are offsets - not the full size plant in the photo

A colorful hybrid by Yamamoto with unreported parentage. A nice medium grower with broad leaves to 3 inches wide in a compact 24 inch rosette. Light green leaf color with heavy red leaf tips and some red concentric bands. The plants show a slight pink cast to the throat that becomes more noticeable at anthesis. The cup color at anthesis is red.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

Wide leaved and completely mottled with red over green in a marbled pattern. The apiculate leaf tips are red and the margins have moderate spines. No cup flush at anthesis. A colorful small to medium sized species that is useful in landscape or as a potted plant.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A Brazilian species who’s name has been confused for some years and has been most often called carcharodon ‘Rubra’, amongst others. Part of the complex containing silvomontana and pernambucana and perhaps even more distantly; carcharodon, it is a beautiful and desirable plant for collectors. Widely used in hybrids (as carcharodon ‘Rubra’), it is very large with fairly wide leaves in an open rosette to about 3 feet across. The leaves are glossy, orangish-green with very large spines on the margins. The inflorescence is large and bears white flowers. Still an uncommon species in cultivation.

An as yet unidentified Orthophytum species collected in Brazil in 2009 by Rafael Olivera de Faria. A robust plant with chocolate-brown foliage with heavy silver scurffing that lightens towards the leaf tips. The inflorescence is a tall scape with strobilate branches with red bracts that fade to green with age, and white flowers.