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Billbergia 'Hallelujah'
5184
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Billbergia ‘Hallelujah’ (amoena ‘Domingos Martins’ x ‘Ed McWilliams’). A tall, tubular plant with a beautiful pattern of bright red, mottled with cream, green and pink. One of Don Beadle’s most famous crosses.
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Byron K. I live in Tennessee so mine is only outside during the summer. Although the color is best during the summer it stays pretty all winter under artificial light. It does seem slower to pup than most of my other billbergias.
x Billmea 'Rosebud'
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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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Byron K. I really like the mix of the beauty of the billbergia pyramidalis combined with the long lasting bloom of the Aechmea. I grow it in Tennessee where it has to come inside my house during the winter. It produces lots of pups, so is a great value.