Cryptanthus 'Double Chocolate Cherry' Size:6-inch Pot upright branches of yellow with

upright branches of yellow with light reddish borders to the bracts

Known to be from higher altitudes than typical forms

This outstanding hybrid (‘Colores’ x ‘Strawberry’ (Beadle #1405)) is a masterwork of famed Billbergia breeder Don Beadle

Short of a DNA test

It could be a hybrid or a cross of different clones of the species

Cryptanthus 'Double Chocolate Cherry' Size:6-inch Pot upright branches of yellow withThis Stephen Hoppin hybrid is a cultivar of capitatus x Strawberries Flambe having 10+ long lanceolate leaves forming an extra large plant with an upright open rosette to 24 in diameter. The glossy, elliptical, densely serrated leaves are mottled with colors of pink, maroon, dark green, and black. The undersides of the leaves are covered in a light covering of lineated white scurf.