I didn't know you had so many, Stephania. They look great! I'm very glad you got a 'Richard Lum' because mine are all gone. Hopefully someone else is propagating it.

Hi Lisa (^_^)

Most of them came form Dr. Larry and Michael's with a few from Tropiflora.
Your beautiful 'Richard Lum' was brought from Michael.
I hope I can get some cultivars from Australia in the next few months.

BTW, I've tried crossing them and your 'Ken Vinzant' has been setting seed pods (*_^)

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They look great.
Congratulations !
Diego.

Stephania, your crypts are beautiful, but what really caught my eye is your palm! Is it Licuala peltata? Oh, how I wish I can grow that here in Cape Town, but our winters are too cold and wet! Japie

Thanks Diego (^_^)

Japie, yes it's L. peltata var. sumawongii and endemic palm to the south of Thailand.
This species can grow the leaf 5 feet in diameter when mature.

If you love those tropical plam, you have to like 'Joey plam' (Johannesteijsmannia altifrons)
and a rare and endemic Kerriodoxa elegans which are native to the south of my country.

Just a rainbow of color there,Stephania. Very nice. Seems they all have taken well to your climate,and are growing strong and healthy. Many of my crypts are starting to bloom this month,so I might try some 'matchmaking' too.
I'll try for some pics to post soon.
Bob

Ken is pregnant????? I'm so confused...... Who's the daddy?

Lisa, I can't imagine how the offsprings will look like,
because I use C. argyrophyllus as pollen parent,
but I hope a huge with wide and round banded leaves.

That sounds like a good cross, Stephania! Hopefully it will be big, wide and silver.

you need a Texas storm if it wasnt variegated the cup is as close to blue as I have seen

These are another attractive Jim Irvin's hybrids in my collection.

'Anne Collings'
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'Frostbite' (still a small pup)
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'Strawberries Flambe'
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Chanin:
I'm truely impressed by how well all your crypts are doing. I'm surprised to see that you have the variegated one call Cryptanthus sp. Brazil. I didn't know that Michael was going to release that one. I hope to soon write about it in the Crypt Journal. The story about how it got into cultivation is interesting. I hope to name it Cryptanthus 'Ray Coleman' for Dennis Cathcart's friend who did so much hybridizing at Tropiflora. He brought it back from Costa Rica, but I will save the rest for the story. I think it is a large form of a variegated Cryptanthus acaulis with unstable variegation.
By the way, the pictures you sent me a few months ago of your terrestrial collection and crypts is on the next Cryptanthus Society Journal back cover with the title- Terrestrials only?
Thanks for your contributions.
Dr. Larry