Cryptanthus lyman-smithii Size:Offset Encholirium species grow much like

Encholirium species grow much like the genus Dyckia

This plant was a sport from seed sewn by Don Beadle some years ago

Easy to grow potted or mounted

A bold plant that deserves a name

spiny margins

Cryptanthus lyman-smithii Size:Offset Encholirium species grow much likeA species first described in 1999 by Elton M. C. Leme to honor Lyman B. Smith who had described at least 50% of the species of Cryptanthus prior to 1979. The species was discovered in July 1998 near Jaguaripe, Bahia, Brazil, a somewhat coastal town in the Atlantic Forest. It is closely related to Cryptanthus beuckeri in which it differs from by the narrowly, sublinear lanceolate leaf blades with its entire or nearly so petiole, and from the simple