Earth Star Plant

Earth Star (Cryptanthus) is a genus of flowering plants popularly known as “Earth Star”. They have showy wavy leaves which grow in the form of a star. This genus consists of various variegated cultivars of different shapes and colors, such as aurantiacus-orange, carnosus-pink (i.e. meat-colored), fuscus-dark, dusky, and viridis-green. Its leaves come in different shapes and sizes, bivittatus-having two stripes, coriaceus-leather-like, lacerdae-tattered, latifolius-wide leaved, marginatus-having margins, zonatus-having zones, i.e. bands. This plant requires a good amount of sunlight with partial shade, frequent watering but not overwatering, and moistured, humid soil.