EXCELLENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've not seen that anywhere else Stephania. Your's may be the only ones.Very nice,do you intend to register it?
'Reverse Elaine' would be a good name for it.
Bob

*WANT*

I think you and I are going to have to trade sometime, Stephania! I have to admit, though, that I've always had a hard time keeping the variegation on the regular 'Elaine'. It always reverts back on me.

Wouldn't reverse 'Elaine' be 'Eniale'?

What a surprise !

Actually, I have to tell you that I have seen the name Crypt. 'Reverse Elaine' in Tropiflora's terrestrial brom list which Dennis sent to me last year, but I have no idea that it would mean reversed to be typical Crypt. fosterianus or opposite variegated like my plant.

I've sent a message to Dr. Larry asking him about this, but he 's replied me yet. If it became a new cultivar, I will name it as Lisa recommended....Cryptanthus 'Eniale' ...I love this name, it's sound Hawaiian "Eniale-ale-a" ....LOL ;)

Uh oh, it looks like I've started something, LOL

Yes, tell Larry that eni'ale is a Hawaiian word meaning "lizard with a red stripe down its back". He'll probably believe you!

Well, reverse It is Ti, so there is a precedent. I think I'll start refering to reverse Kahala Dawn as Nwad Alahak. ;-)

LOL Kahala is unstable as they come. That plant will go nuts for no apparent reason. I have seen that plant turn almost solid black.

Really, hdd? I've never seen any instability in mine, the markings have been pretty consistant.

There is an albomarginated cv. of the same cross, which was unnamed but we all call it reverse KD, and now it seems to have been registered under that name. It's a distinct clone though, not a sport or reversion. It's pretty, but I've never liked it because the white margins bruise if you breathe on them too hard.

it also goes nuts and more prone to do it than the original KD

That's odd, must be something in the water over there. ;-)

I've had plenty of unstable variegates, but never had that problem with either of those two.

Back to Crypts..... from what I understand, the original 'Elaine' developed over several generations of selection from C. fosterianus. How long did your reverse cv. take, Stephania?

What I don't understand is why only species Crypts seem to throw variegated sports. Why not hybrids?

then they would be called cryptabrids?