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.

The smallest species of Neoregelia. Native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, it’s a little-bitty thing to barely two inches tall with green leaves mottled with reddish-brown. It grows in clusters on one to two inch stolons and will shortly fill to overflowing a hanging pot or basket. Very easy to grow successfully and wildly popular with hybridizers of miniature bromeliads. The terrarium crowd has also adopted this plant as a staple.

A cultivar of (calyculata x recurvata) is a tough and handsome small grower that keeps a compact shape in varying light conditions. The recurvata parent lends an upright, compact, vase-like shape, and the calyculata parent adds the bright yellow flowering inflorescence. Nice for landscape around boulders

A colorful, small grower to 8 inches across, from Hawaiian hybridizer Lisa Vinzant. Leaves are greenish yellow with red bands and has a reddish cast to the leaves when grown hard. It flushes red over all when blooming.

A colorful hybrid from Altria Labs in Brazil. Medium sized with a symmetrical shape, nice green-flecked red leaves and red leaf tips.

A hybrid of (‘Ornato’ x carcharodon ‘Tiger’) by Grant Groves. A handsome, glossy hybrid with many stiff leaves in a 20 inch rosette. The leaves have large marginal spines with an apiculate tip.

The medium green background color is suffused with a reddish blush and deep red-chestnut banding covers both leaf su

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A medium size plant that grows to 20 inches across. The leaves are dark green/black with wide white variegation. The leaves have tightly spaces broken bands of red. This one is bright and a really nice stand out plant.

An interesting and attractive plant about 18 to 24 inches tall in an upright rosette, with pale green leaves and a pink inflorescence with white flowers. The shape of the inflorescence resembles that of a typical form of blue-flowered gamosepala, but in every way it is larger. A rarely seen form that is both beautiful and easy to grow.