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Bromeliad Cultivar Register (2197) 2015-02-23

CRYPTANTHUS ‘Starlite’ (Cobia) 1978

cv. of bivittatus - Mutation uniform and consistent from the beginning from C. bivittatus. Dr. Larry Giroux said, "The border stripes of olive-green remain, but the inner stripes from outward to the center of the leaf blade changes from cream to light pink, to dark pink with faint olive-green central stripes mimicking the parent from which it mutated".

Seed Parent: bivittatus
JBS 30:79; 46:155, CSJ 1:4-p11-FCill; 3:3-p34; 10:2-p20ill, ColinCat1991