We have been growing this plant for years under the name of cf. cylindrata, (white) but we are not at all certain of the name. The “cf.” means “compares favorably” or “similar to”, though to us, it looks a bit more like gamosepala than cylindrata. At any rate it is an all white form with no pigmentation in the inflorescence. A proven hardy plant to near freezing without damage, it is also prolific and forms a nice clump in a fairly short time. The leaves are gray-green and form an upright rosette.

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A nice form of this variable species which was collected by Berg and Anderson in Brazil. This form has stiff leaves, an upright, tubular shape, and the classic ’thumb-print’. The leaves are gray-green with silvery bands and the inflorescence is a compact cone with yellow flowers and bright red bracts.

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This Grace Goode miniature is a hybrid of (lilliputiana x ‘Strawberry Cup’). Barely 4 inches tall, it is an upright, ampoule shaped plant on short stolons. The leaves are stiff, golden yellowish-green with slight red tips, light red spotting and red leaf bases.

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A stunning species with an open rosette of wide green, black spined leaves which grows to well over 30 inches. The inflorescence is a panicle of fiery-red berries and red flowers which rises well above the foliage. A rarity that is definitely a must for your collection.

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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’.

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Lisa Vinzant’s colorful cultivar of ‘Domingos Martins’ x ‘Arriba’ has a tight tubular shape. The leaves are a bright mahogany color with numerous spots and blotches of white. The leaf edges have nice black spines. The plant needs good bright light to keep good color.

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A gray-leaved Tillandsia found growing as a lithophyte on cliffs and rarely on trees in the intermontane valleys of the Western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador and Peru. Features broad leaves tapering to a fine tip, rather soft and forming a loose rosette of recurving leaves. The inflorescence is tall, feather shaped and light pink to slightly orange. The flowers, set distichously, are greenish yellow. Easy to cultivate under typical Tillandsia conditions, mounted or in a very good draining media.

A uncommon species that is not found in many plant collections. It originates in Minas Gerais, Brazil growing on rocky outcroppings. The color can vary from gray to silver with hints of red. The mature size is 10 to 12 inches across. 

A mound forming miniature lithophytic or terrestrial species from Bolivia and Argentina. Formerly known as Abromeitiella lorentziana, the plant is a mounding species which forms many ‘heads’, each about two inches across. The leaves are stiff and thickly succulent, acutely triangular and very sharply pointed. Normally green in cultivation, it may blush a gray to rusty red in full sun. The flower is without a scape and is deep green. Easy to grow in well-drained soil in bright light to full sun.

One of the larger of the genus, reaching a height of nearly 3 feet. It's upright leaves blush pink with silver banding in good light, when not over-fed. The inflorescence is typical of its kin, a cone of wavy, fluorescent crimson bracts, as delicate as tissue paper, and blue flowers. Stunning when in bloom. Great landscape plant for central to southern Florida and similarly warm areas. Will spread to fill a bed and will climb any available tree.

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Dyckia ‘Grey Ops’ – a Bill Baker hybrid with D. marnier-lapostollei in the grex. Heavy silver scurffing on wide leaves makes for an attractive plant. Bright orange flowers are sizable.

A terrestrial species named for the State of Bahia in Brazil, but found throughout the northeastern coastal Atlantic rain forest and inland caatinga from the States of Paraíba south to the State of Bahia.  Discovered in 1939 by Mulford Foster in the highlands, an area called caatinga which is similar to a mesquite, it was the first known Cryptanthus species to have been found in shaded, semi-dry locations.  This species is quite different from other species in the family as it has very spiny, stiff, succulent leaves.  Propagating from long stolons up to 12 inches long, the caulescent plant forms a very loose, open round shape up to 12 inches in diameter.  This cultivar is a red form of the species with Selby accession number of SEL 1987-0158.  The offsets start out as bright chartreuse green with just a faint coloring of rust red to the leaves and as they mature the leaves turn a dark rust red.  In a greater amount of sun the leaves can turn an Indian red to brown-red.