Maybe the most popular and most sought after Billbergia species ever. This stunning cultivar has been the plant of choice for Billbergia hybridizers ever since its introduction by Bob Whitman in the ‘80s. Collected on ‘Kautsky’s Mountain’ near the town of Domingos Martins, it was originally describes as a new species; domingosmartinsis, but later made a cultivar of vittata.

With proper (hard) culture this plant becomes tightly tubular and its spiny, banded leaves show a great deal of white blotching. The inflorescence is amazingly showy. An outstanding plant in every way.

One of the spectacular helicoid Billbergias that have beautiful pendant inflorescences with large flowers and showy bracts. This species is widespread in the Amazon basin from they Guyanas across Brazil to Bolivia and is nowhere common. A tall, tubular species with thick, leathery leaves with stout marginal spines. Few leaves in the upright rosette which forms a tube then flares out with several very long leaves. The color is brownish in good light otherwise green-gray with silvery cross bands. The flowers are large with yellowish petals and the scape bracts are crimson. This clone is from the Brom-L seed bank; #405.