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Botanical details
- Family
- Bromeliaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Cryptanthus
- Genus description
Cryptanthus are evergreen, rosette-forming perennials with leathery, wavy-edged, strap-shaped leaves, often attractively variegated, and inconspicuous, usually fragrant, greenish-white flowers in summer
- Name status
Correct
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