Vol 14 No 3 - November, 2004

 

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Neoregelia ‘Red Bird’ These are a close parallel to the more familiar Neo. ‘Fireball’, but are slightly smaller, redder and not as shiny. A popular hanging pot or terrarium subject, always in good color. Offsets,
$4.00
#2200P

Neoregelia 'Roseo Lineata' x concentrica Graceful, with 2in wide, red-tipped leaves forming a full 24in rosette. Glossy green with red striations which are darker on the undersides, 6in pots,
$15.00 #2414

Neoregelia ‘Royal Cordovan’ An outstanding plant with wide, deep coppery-burgundy leaves in a symmetrical flat rosette. The center blushes deep red at anthesis, but the year-round color is very pleasing. Unusual and attractive. Excellent large offsets,
$5.00 #2506P

Neoregelia ‘Royal Flush’ An excellent miniature with wide leaves in an upright rosette. The color is deep plum to almost purple-black in strong light, with a few darker speckles. Outstanding color and form. Offsets,
$3.00
#678P

Neoregelia 'Sand Flea' A small to medium growing novelty plant that matures at about 8 to 10in. Variegated, red pepper-speckled leaves show an overall red blush and a cherry-red center flush at anthesis. Very handsome. 4in pots, $7.50 #6075

Neoregelia 'Spotted Night' An Australian hybrid from Shane Zaghini, is a loose rosette to 12in, with fairly broad, green leaves, strongly banded below with dark purple.
5in pots, $10.00 #5480
Offsets,   $4.00 #5480P

Neoregelia ‘Sarah Head’ A little beauty by Odean Head, barely 6in wide, with pointed glossy red leaves, mottled on both sides with green and lightly striated looking. Its stoloniferous habit makes this a great plant for basket culture or mounting. Nice for terrariums. Offsets,
$3.00
#2421P

Neoregelia 'Sunset' Lovely deep burgundy leaves with green speckling, blotches and red tips in a neat open rosette. It matures at about 20 to 24in and makes a nice pot or landscape plant for bright to deep shaded areas. Large offsets, $6.00 #1169P

Neoregelia 'Sybil Jane' A wide leaved Chester Skotak concentrica hybrid with green leaves evenly striped with bright white. A glaze of hot pinkish-red covers the plant from the vivid center out to the tips. First released at $50, we now have nice offsets for only
$10.00 #3472P

Neoregelia ‘Takemura’ x ‘Painted Desert’ A new and lovely hybrid that forms a large rosette about 24in across with fairly stiff, wide leaves, armed with large teeth, blushing deep pinkish red over green with abundant green speckling. The leaf is somewhat glaucous, having an almost powdery look. Offsets,
$7.50 #1731P

Neoregelia 'Tangerine' A beautiful medium sized plant with glossy leaves and a great orange... or should we say tangerine...color! Once their fertilizer level drops, they take on high color even when not in bloom or in good light. Foolproof beauty. What more could you ask? Mature plants in 5in pots, only
$12.50 #2475

Neoregelia ‘Tiger Cub’ This is a great little plant with the characteristics that make it hot for hybridizers. A miniature, about 6in tall in an upright, stoloniferous rosette, with light green leaves heavily barred below with dark reddish-maroon. The bars and bands show through the leaf from below. Offsets,
$5.00
#4475P

Neoregelia 'Tuti Fruti' This sport of ‘Scarlet Fever’ is a colorful medium grower with an overall orange cast. If not in very bright light, the color is mottled green and orange. Nice and different. Offsets,
$4.50 #4295P

Neoregelia 'Victoria Pink' A plant that has an incredible flush of color when blooming, becoming bright pink all the way to the tips of the leaves. When not in bloom, the plant still has a pink tint, with slight pink stripes and pink tips, but it all intensifies at anthesis. Nice plants in 6in pots,
$10.00 #2611

Neoregelia 'Vulcan' x Oeser #418 Glowing coppery-red best describes the color of this vivid compact Neo. Some red speckling in the leaves gives it character and the small size of 10 to 12in lets it fit nicely on your garden room shelf. Offsets.
$4.00
#4000P

Neoregelia ‘Zebra’ A handsome, large growing plant with an upright, spreading rosette shape of 2in wide leaves that tint dark reddish over green on top and are strongly horizontally banded with red below. Quite attractive and very seldom see in collections. We have big robust plants in 6in pots,
$25.00 #5945

Neoregelia zonata A handsome, upright, tubular plant with stiff, yellowish-green leaves with rust colored banding. Not large, it matures at 8 to 10in. This is the ’true species’, from the collection of Elton Leme in Brazil. Multiple plants in 5in pots,
$7.50
#1722

Tillandsia brachycaulos x flabellata A nice natural hybrid from Honduras with the reddish, blushing foliage of a brachycaulos and an inflorescence showing influence of the flabellata parent, with short red branches. Can grow potted or mounted.
$7.50
#4599

Tillandsia bulbosa ‘Giant Red Form’ Native to Belize, these plants have pseudobulbs over an inch thick, with cylindrical leaves up to 10in long. The inflorescence is branched and brilliant red, and the whole top of the plant blushes red too. Easy to grow mounted in a bright spot. Enjoys frequent watering.
$6.00
#777

Tillandsia capitata 'Domingensis' An enigmatic plant introduced by Rauh as a varietal form of capitata from the Dominican Republic. ‘Domingensis’ was rejected scientifically, but serves well as a cultivar name to keep this diminutive form separate from the many other mainland forms. Mature plants, 4 to 5in tall,
$7.50 #2176

Tillandsia duratii x stricta A real oddity, caulescent, but very leafy with more of a rosette shape like stricta, and narrow, succulent, silvery leaves like duratii, The inflorescence is a scape with a cluster of short branches bearing purple fragrant flowers, clearly a mix of the two parents. A fairly large grower to about 24in. Nice, big, almost mature to mature size plants,
$20.00 #2738

Tillandsia edithiae A beautiful caulescent plant with short, broadly triangular silvery-gray leaves and a stunning red-flowered inflorescence. A native of Bolivia where it lives a lithophytic existence on sheer rock cliffs, hanging in massive cascades. Care free to grow, when mounted in a pendant fashion it freely produces offsets along its old stem, soon forming large attractive clusters. Nice large plants, about 10in long,
$10.00 #173L

Tillandsia ixioides x tenuifolia A small plant with grayish silver leaves in an upright rosette. It is clustering and has a short scape with bright pink bracts and yellowish flowers. Nice.
$4.00 #2741

Tillandsia rhodocephala An impressive large growing plant from Mexico, this species is rare in cultivation. Superficially, it resembles a giant capitata, with many strappy leaves, gracefully recurving in a 24 to 30in silvery rosette. The inflorescence is capitate with a head of long bracts and tight branches. In nature, the inflorescence is red, hence the name, which means literally 'Red Head'. Nice big plants,
$30.00 #791

Tillandsia straminea, ‘Large Form’ Found in southern Ecuador and northern Peru, it has widely spreading soft leaves of silver forming a rosette to 20in. The inflorescence is tall with lavender branches and very fragrant, purple-rimmed, white-petaled flowers. We consider this to be the finest form of straminea.
$10.00 #315L

Tillandsia tectorum The beautiful giant clone from Peru, certainly the most spectacular of the various tectorum clones and one of the most striking of all Tillandsias. Like giant plumes of silver cotton candy, some specimens can reach 24in. Compressed for shipping, the leaves fluff out to form a delicate silvery-white ball a few days after unpacking. Grow mounted or bare root in your brightest, breeziest place. Avoid over watering. 
Small,   5 to  7in $ 7.50 #323S
Medium, 8 to 10in $10.00  #323M
Large, 11 to 13in $15.00 #323L
Extra Large Specimens, 14 to 18in $20.00  #323X

Tillandsia ’White Star’ (ixioides x recurvifolia) Dimmit A wide spreading rosette to about 8in, with half inch wide, rather stiff and silvery-lepidote leaves. Much more closely resembles the ixioides parent, but has more leaves and rosy pink bracts with yellow flowers. An attractive plant. Budded and blooming plants,
$5.00 #2663

Vriesea 'Bonfire' This exciting Hill hybrid is an excellent grower with a lovely single, thick, sword shaped spike of yellow and orange. Stunning when grown in clusters. Nice 2/3 mature plants in 6in pots.
$10.00 #457

Vriesea ospinae Clumps of this smaller form which matures at only about 12 to 18in. Native to Colombia, it has slightly grayish-green leaves with darker reticulations, arranged along a short stem. This plant has a clustering habit and produces multiple branched spikes of yellow. Not a rare plant, but nice. We have multiples in 6in pots for only 
$7.50
#384

Vriesea 'Purple Pendant' This plant, a retroflexa hybrid, has a deep-purplish inflorescence which is pendant, recurving upward. The coppery colored foliage forms a smallish rosette to about 10in or so. Nice plants, about mature, in 5in pots, $7.50 #976

Seedlings
An assortment of species grown from our own stock.
Most are large growing forms, suitable for landscape in warmer locations.
All seedlings are large and robust, in 4in pots.  

Aechmea bracteata 'Caribbean Form' A clone from the islands that tends to be a bit more upright, with a bulbous base, light green with a gray scurf and covered with small dark speckles overall in strong light. Big seedlings in 4in pots, $6.00 #6048S

Aechmea emmerichiae A nice large (not huge) species with a 30in, upright, funnel-form rosette and a nice inflorescence consisting of a spike with clusters of yellow branches and pinkish bracts. Well suited for landscape. Seedlings in 4in pots,
$4.00 #1281S

Aechmea luddemanniana A staple in collections for many years. Sturdy and easy to grow, at home in the southern landscape or in a northern greenhouse. Several forms have been derived from the typical wild one which is native to Mexico and northern Central America. Reaching 24in in a funnelform rosette, its leaves get reddish in good light. Seedlings in 4in pots,
$4.00 #561S

Aechmea rubens A giant grower to over three feet tall with a bright red/orange inflorescence consisting of a loose cluster of short branches. Very attractive and hardy landscape plant for temperate areas. Seedlings in 4in pots,
$6.00 #832S

Aechmea tillandsioides Variable over its range from Mexico to the Amazon basin. Shiny, green leaves form an upright rosette and the inflorescence is a digitate cluster of red or yellow branches red bracts. A very colorful, medium sized plant, suitable for medium light conditions. Seedlings in 4in pots,
$4.00 #397S

Hohenbergia stellata A lovely large growing plant that forms a very leafy light green rosette. The inflorescence is a tall scape with a series of clustered pink branches. Very long lasting in color. A great landscape plant in subtropical regions, grows well as an epiphyte. Mature plants can reach nearly three feet tall. Nice big seedlings in 4in pots,
$6.00 #365S

 

Buy A Collection And Save!

Bromeliad Seedling Collection Take all six big seedlings, a nice collection valued at $30, and pay only $25.00 #C46

 

Collector’s Corner …
A double offering of two newer hybrid miniatures from famed Australian hybridist Grace Goode.


Neoregelia 'Flare Up' This is a tiny plant from with yellowish leaves strongly barred with red. A stoloniferous hybrid of Neo. punctatissima with lilliputiana, a compact grower that makes a nice cluster. Offsets,
$12.50
#3878

 

Neoregelia ‘Wee Willy’ This cute little hybrid of Neo. punctatissima is a yellow-green plant with red bands, becoming brighter yellow in strong light or ‘hard’ conditions. The plant has a stoloniferous habit and will form a large, well-spaced cluster in time. Only about 6in tall, it is suited for a 4in pot or a hanging basket. We have mature sized offsets cut from our clump. Hard to find,
$12.50
#1986

 

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