A bi-generic hybrid by Bryan Windham. Thick green recurving leaves with pronounced spines. Mature size 20 inches across. grows best in bright filtered light.

A cultivar of (Deuterocohnia longipetala ‘Silver’ x Pitcairnia burle-marxii) by Ray Lemieux. Narrow, spiny with soft, rubbery spines, deeply channeled, discolor leaves that are green on top and deep purple below. It has a tall scape with peach colored flowers. As far as we know this is the first of this nothogenera to be produced. The name comes from the fact that the spines are soft despite their appearance. Cultivate as a terrestrial bromeliad, bright shade, even moisture.

Another one of Bryan Windham's bi-generic hybrid. This one is Puya laxa x Deuterocohnia brevispicata.  Medium green recurving leaves that have silver scurf and leaf imprints. Noticeable red hooked spines are along the leaf edges. Our plants are still growing so we do not know what the mature size of this plant will be. Grows best in bright filtered light.

Bryan Windham's hybrid of Aechmea chantinii 'Deleon' x Sincoraea ulei.

A unusual bi-generic hybrid from Bryan Windham. The parentage is Aechmea chantinii "Deleon' x Sincoraea ulei.  Mature, open rosette to 50cm. diameter. In the advanced juvenile stage, this cultivar has star-like, plain silvery grey-green, prickly leaves with sharp pointed tips. At blooming, it produces a flat, bright salmon red, pin cushion-like inflorescence with an inner corolla of yellow leaves, extending outwards to fiery orange sections and outer leaves turn burnished maroon.

Hummel's hybrid of Aechmea x Ananas (pineapple) (exact species unreported) is a strange combination resulting in a smallish plant with stiff, spiny, upright, deeply red-specked leaves in a compact upright rosette to about 20 inches. The inflorescence is a pineapple-like head that never forms a real fruit, but produces a leafy crown or offset on the top and a ring of offsets at the bottom of the head like a pineapple. A unique novelty that belongs in every collection.

One of the rarest living cycads. Native to forested areas of Veracruz, Mexico, it was only described in 1983, and may now be extinct in the wild. Grow in shade to semi-shaded conditions.

C.I.T.E.S. - No export, sorry.