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.

A very nice species, considered by some to be superior to punctatissima ‘Yellow’. Easier to grow than that form, with less cultural problems. A thicker plant with yellow color and tiny red bands. Plant matures at 3 inches high and 2 to 3 inches across. This form of the species was originally collected in Brazil by Bob Work.

A colorful miniature Neo. by Grace Goode is a hybrid of (punctassima x liliputiana). A very small grower to barely 4 inches tall in an upright, funnel form rosette shape. Leaves are light green which is almost completely obscured by red spots, blotches and bands on both sides of the leaf. The foliage is rather stiff with tiny marginal spines and an apiculate tip. Offsets are on short stolons.

A colorful small plant with green leaves, washed with red and a sort of banded pattern. The cup flushes vivid red-purple in bloom. A nice windowsill-sized plant. The cross is  by Gary Hendrix Neoregelia princeps x ‘Fireball’ x ‘Peggy Pollard’.

A Chester Skotak hybrid with as yet unreported parentage. A loose rosette of glossy variegated leaves has upright growth which flattens out at anthesis. The color becomes a glossy hot pink with age and good light.  A nice stand-out plant in anyone’s collection.

A miniature only 3 to 4 inches tall in compact rosettes. The leaves are light green with slight speckling of red, red tips that flare outward, and lightly gray banded on the reverse.

This is a complex species with many different forms, some of which formerly had their own species names. Native mainly to Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil, they are as a group lithophytic with upright growth, thick, stiff leaves and colors from green to gray and red. This form has about a dozen very broad leaves, is upright, tubular and flaring with apiculate leaf tips that are pink in color. The base leaf color is gray, having a thick coating of trichomes over a light green leaf. This species typically offsets before blooming. A very fine form.

This is one of Chester’s better hybrids. Well known to collectors but uncommon in cultivation. A large growing plant with 5 inch wide leaves. To achieve the plant’s best look it needs to be grown in strong light. The variegation is usually a wide stripe or stripes down the center of the leaves. Veneer is a vivid reddish-pink which makes this plant a real stand-out!

A miniature Neo hybrid by Lisa Vinzant of Hawaii, is out of the same grex as her hybrid; ‘Popoki’. Like ‘Popoki’, it has inch wide leaves with rounded leaf tips and 6 inch long stolons, is about 6 inches high and 8 inches across. Reddish overall with red banding. Offsets readily, good for terrariums, mounting and basket culture. 

A decorative small growing plant, with deep burgundy colored, green speckled leaves. Makes a nice clump in a pot or basket. Very pretty.

A different looking hybrid from Chester Skotak, cross information not yet reported. A compact Neoregelia that has 5-inch wide green leaves with wide cream colored margins. The leaves develop a magenta veneer and there are some color breaks in the veneer which look like cream colored spots.

A impressive hybrid from Chester Skotak. The dark green leaves have wide variegation that is obscured by a deep red veneer that covers the leaves. There are color breaks of spots within the veneer giving the plant a speckled look of green and white.

The plant grows to a mature size of 26 inches across and 10 inches high. There is a slightly dark red color at anthesis.

A beautiful, upright rosette of moderately wide leaves develops a difficult to describe coloration of pink, lavender, fuchsia over green with white mottling and spotting. Colors much better if grown hard. Hybrid of (chlorosticta ‘Marble Throat’ x ‘Takemura Princeps’) (Thom)

An as yet unidentified species brought from Brazil some years ago by RL Frasier. A small grower with inch wide, thick, pointed, leaves in an 8 inch rosette with 2 inch stolons. Color is burgundy with small yellow spots. Needs good bright light and a bit drier for best color and form.

A medium size Neoregelia hybrid by Lisa Vinzant is a cultivar of ‘Piglet’ x (‘Marble Throat’ x ‘David’s Cross’). The light green colored leaves have spots of white and green and a pink veneer that starts at an early age of the plant and a faint marbling pattern on some of the leaves. There is a color change at anthesis when the veneer changes to a darker rosy pink.

One of Gary Hendrix’s hybrids is a cultivar of Neoregelia ampullacea ‘Zebrina’ x ‘Fireball’. It has enjoyed some controversy as to its exact parentage and origin, but that has all been pretty much now sorted out.

Anyway this is a cute little miniature, smaller than either parent, with broad leaves of dark green, heavily peppered with red spots, so much so that they plants appear solid red. The little rosettes are on 2 inch stolons and the plant will quickly form nice sized clusters. Very popular with terrarium enthusiasts.

Neoregelia ‘Heather’s Dream’ An R.L. Fraiser hybrid. A large grower that reaches 30 inches across. Green leaves with wide ivory colored margins. Plants developes a deep rich purple color at anthesis. A great addition for the bromeliad collector.