plant named ‘Crystal Flame’

Botanical designation:

Cultivar denomination: ‘CRYSTAL FLAME’.

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar ofplant, botanically known asand hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Crystal Flame’.

The newplant is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of‘Black Gold’, not patented. The newplant was discovered and selected by the Inventor in March, 2014 as a single plant from within a population of plants of ‘Black Gold’ in a controlled environment in Alajuela, Costa Rica.

Asexual reproduction of the newplant by cuttings and divisions in a controlled environment in Alajuela, Costa Rica since March, 2014 has shown that the unique features of this newplant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.

Plants of the newhave not been observed under all possible combinations of environmental conditions and cultural practices. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environmental conditions such as temperature and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype.

The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Crystal Flame’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Crystal Flame’ as a new and distinctplant:

Plants of the newdiffer primarily from plants of the mutation parent, ‘Black Gold’, in the following characteristics:

Plants of the newcan be compared to plants of‘Black Coral’, not patented. In side-by-side comparisons, plants of the newdiffer primarily from plants of ‘Black Coral’ in leaf color as leaves of plants of the neware dark green in color with contrasting silvery green to light green-colored margins whereas leaves of ‘Black Coral’ are dark green in color with light greyed green-colored cross-banding and/or chevrons.

The aforementioned photographs and following observations and measurements describe plants grown in 15-cm containers during the spring in a polypropylene shade cloth-covered greenhouse in Miami, Florida. Plants were grown under environmental conditions and cultural practices which approximate those generally used in commercialproduction. During the production of the plants, day temperatures averaged 32° C., night temperatures averaged 26° C. and light levels averaged 3,000 foot-candles. Plants were six months from planting rooted young plants when the photographs and the detailed description were taken. In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, 2015 Edition, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.