A small growing Aechema recurvata hybrid by Lisa Vinzant. Olive green with dark leaf tips that turn blue with age. Produces a short inflorescence of pink. Matures at 10 inches tall. Grows best in bright filtered light.

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A cultivar of (Aechmea chantinii x ramosa). The plant is an upright funnel form rosette with fairly stiff, 2 to 3 inch wide leaves nearly 24 inches long, with fairly large spines and reddish tips. The color is medium green with pale green variegation and light gray banding as with the chantinii parent. The inflorescence is well-branched and erect, with a rose-red scape and scape bracts and yellow flowers with rose-tinted yellow ovaries. Appears to be very long lasting in bloom.

This plant was found in a Panamanian landscape by Bob Alonzo who obtained an offset, mistaking it for a variegated Portea petropolitana in its non-blooming state. He gave the plant to us upon his return. Since blooming, we feel the plant is the above hybrid and Harry Luther of the BIC concurs. Since there is no record of this cross in a variegated state in cultivation, we have decided to register it and name it in honor of Bob Alonzo who made the find.

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A tissue culture hybrid of Aechmea chantinii x fasciata. The plant grows to 2 and 1/2 feet in a large green rosette shape with many spiny leaves lightly scurfed. The rosy pinkish-red bloom is long-lasting and stunning. 

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A new hybrid by Bryan Windham. It's a cross between Aechmea chantinii 'Black' x Aechmea brassicoides. The center of the plant is an upright rosette of burgundy chocolate, slightly overlapping leaves that are heavily scurfed. At anthesis the red bracted inflorescence comes out the center of the plant. A truly unique and bizarre looking plant. 

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A rare plant from Brazil that grows in a large rosette to about three feet across. In good light the leaves are green, tinted with copper color and slightly banded. The inflorescence looks very much like that of Ae. pineliana, having a corn-cob shape and small, light blue flowers.

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Aechmea aquilega variegated  A beautifully variegated form of a large handsome species. This plant grows to about three feet tall with stiff leaves in an upright rosette. The inflorescence has clustered branches of yellow with pink bracts and is very colorful. However, the best part is the vividly variegated leaves which are light green with bold creamy white. This stunning form was found in Brazil.

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This clone of the species was obtained by the late Wally Berg in Brazil. Compared to the 'normal' form of the species, this one's leaves are narrower and pointed at the tip. It has an overall bronze coloration and a typical mulfordii bloom; orange branches with red bracts. A good full sun landscape plant. Great landscape plant.

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A real collector’s item! This very handsome clone was obtained by Wally Berg on a visit to the private garden of Burle Marx in Rio de Janeiro. Tubular in shape, but flaring at the leaf tips, it is a beautiful glossy coppery color. An exceptional form.

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An interesting and very compact Brazilian form. Leaves are green, well banded when young, very stiff, forming wide-leaved tubular, short, thick vases. Very decorative with yellow flowers and bright red scape bracts.

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A nice form of this variable species which was collected by Berg and Anderson in Brazil. This form has stiff leaves, an upright, tubular shape, and the classic ’thumb-print’. The leaves are gray-green with silvery bands and the inflorescence is a compact cone with yellow flowers and bright red bracts.

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This is a relatively new Brazilian species of which we know little, aside from its general appearance, that of a very leafy, full rosette of narrow, light green, slightly mottled leaves with large black spines. We grow it in a 6 inch pot, but it is reportedly a large growing species. We have not found that, but we have also never bloomed this species either.

*Formerly Aechmea

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Ben Sill’s intergeneric hybrid is a cultivar of Billbergia pyramidalis x Aechmea recurvata and it keeps the best characteristics of both parents. The overall shape of the plant is that of an Ae. recurvata, with fairly stiff, pointed leaves forming a slightly bulbous, vase shape. As typical with Ae. recurvata, the center whorl of leaves shortens before anthesis and frames the inflorescence in a whorl of short, broad, pointed leaves, but there is no leaf blush at anthesis. The inflorescence is a good copy of the Bil. pyramidalis parent, with brilliant red flowers and scurfy red bracts. The upside is that the inflorescence lasts longer than the Billbergia parent. All in all a really interesting, colorful plant.

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