A Neo. ‘Fireball‘ x carolinae ‘Dwarf’ hybrid, at about 10 inches is larger than the original ‘Fireball’, and flushes a nice red in strong light. Good in terrariums and its stoloniferous habit makes this a particularly good subject for hanging basket culture. Popular with landscapers.

A medium size grower. Green colored leaves that develop a purple veneer. The purple veneer is broken by many greenish yellow spots. Blushes purple at anthesis. Makes a nice landscape plant.

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A new Chester Skotak release for 2012. (Registration and cross information pending) This little stoloniferous plant with creamy-white marginal variegation reaches about 6 inches tall and wide in a few-leaved, upright, spreading rosette. The body of the plant is somewhat ampoule shaped. Light green with a random dose of tiny purple spots and a few broken bars. Bars on the undersides of the leaves are bolder. The cup develops a purple flush with maturity. Great for terrariums.

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A hybrid by Michael Kiehl. Both parents are nicely banded, reddish over green, this plant though has shown more of a tendency towards red mottling over green. Once hardened off, it takes on brighter colors, becoming yellowish with red markings.

A variegated clone of the (carolinae x carcharodon) hybrid from Chester Skotak. A handsome 30in rosette with wide leaves, large soft spines and variegation up the center of the leaf. Blush a rosy-red with good light. A great plant with a nice shape, good for a pot specimen or as a landscape plant.

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This early Skotak hybrid is a cultivar of ‘Fireball’ x ?. Unreported parentage. A small beauty almost the same size and shape of the ‘Fireball’ parent, with the same stoloniferous habit. A nicely variegated plant with reddish leaves in good light and light white to pinkish variegation.

The variegation is in the form of multiple thin stripes or lineations up the center of each leaf. It is a great plant for hanging baskets, for mounting and for use in terrariums.

An excellent small species from Brazil. Little upright vases, rarely over 8in tall, have lightly purple mottled green leaves, slightly edged in dark brownish purple. When in bloom, the center cup flushes bright purple.

Northern Mindanao Bromeliads ©2002 Juanilla Alfonso-Go 400+ beautiful color photos of spectacularly colored bromeliads grown on this Philippine island. 38 pages.

Useful for many epiphytic plants and essential for Vanda culture. These sturdy, well made baskets are manufactured in Central America from Cedrela odorata, or Tropical Cedar, which has a cedar fragrance and looks like mahogany.

The source of this wood for baskets is mostly as a byproduct of furniture manufacturing, it is long lasting, non toxic to plants and resists rot. The galvanized wires that hold the slats together are of a heavy gauge to last for years.

Medium Orchid Fir Bark -This is an excellent grade of western fir bark suitable for incorporation in potting media.

This is the grade most often used in orchid mixes, bromeliad mixes and those for almost any epiphytic plant. Fir bark adds substance to the mix and aeration.

A cultivar of (O. magalhaesii x saxicola v. aloifolium) by Jim Irvin. Wide, dark brownish-orange leaves, heavily covered in silvery scurf, arch handsomely, forming attractive rosettes.

A very easy and rewarding plant to grow. 

A species from Minas Gerais with a most enigmatic and seemingly unsuitable name. Anyone familiar with this plant would hardly say that it is compact in any way. A rather gangly species with leaves to 24 inches long that are semi-stiff and fairly heavily armed with stout marginal spines. The plant overall without a bloom may more closely bring to mind a Bromelia seedling of some type. The inflorescence is on a tall scape with long scape bracts framing a compact head of short branches with white flowers which was described as “densely compound” by Lyman Smith, and this is likely where the name ‘compactum’ comes from. The scape is floccose with white scales and the leaves are glabrous above and somewhat scurfy below. The color is green with a tendency to turn yellowish in bright light. Offsets are produced on long, slender stolons. Native to the area of the type locality of “Margem da Rodovia Nanuque – Teofilo Otoni, Serra Rochosa” in eastern Minas Gerais on rocky slopes.