A hybrid of Portea kermesina x Aechmea blanchetiana that makes an interesting plant for landscape with a long lasting inflorescence of red branches and bracts and yellow flowers.  The foliage is coppery red.  Does best in light shade.

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A beautiful red foliaged form of Nudicaulis from the vicinity of Martinhos-Morretes, Parana, Brazil. Compact, upright rosettes of broad leaves that are stiff, blunt and glossy are colored medium green with a red wash and a veneer of dark burgundy in bands and streaks. The leaf undersides have a grayish wash. The inflorescence is bright yellow with flaming red bracts, very showy. Very stoloniferous and thrives mounted. Looks great in a hanging basket too.

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A stoloniferous, funnelform rosette to 6 inches, with red tips, reddish-bronze color and abundant red speckling. Nice for mounting, growing in a hanging pot or terrarium.

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This is a 2007 cultivar of ‘Durrell’ x ‘San Juan’ by Stephen Hoppin.  The shape is a loose rosette up to 10 inches tall and 24 inches across with shiny green leaves that are wavy with serrated edges.  The leaves have an olive green color that has a hint of bronze along the edge and slight scurfing on the underside of the leaves.

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A cute little Neo. punctatissima hybrid by Grace Goode. A miniature to only about five inches tall in a stoloniferous rosette of about fifteen, inch wide leaves. The color when mature is dark green with closely spaced burgundy bands and spots on both sides of the leaves. Good for terrariums and makes a good hanging basket plant with three inch stolons.

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A variegated clone of Neoregelia cruenta ‘Sun King’ that was found in the beachside restinga of Rio de Janeiro. A beautiful stiff-leaved upright wide-leaved rosette with red-tipped green leaves, turning yellow in strong light, with yellowish variegation. A real stunner and still on the rare side.

Obviously a very confusing species. Little resembling the ‘true’ species plant, this one from the Selby collection has glossy lime-green leaves mottled and barred with reddish-chestnut, stronger below and lighter above. 6 inch rosettes form clusters on short stolons.

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A species from Tamaulipas state of Mexico. An easy to grow species that forms large, silvery-scurfy rosettes. Oddly, the offsets come off with soft, glabrous leaves, developing the scurfy appearance that protects them from the sun, as they mature. The narrow, spiny leaves are rather soft (for a Hechtia) and the tips naturally die back and curl.

Ben Sill’s unusual bigeneric hybrid is a cultivar of Billbergia decora x Aechmea recurvata. A rather small grower to about 14 inches tall with a slightly bulbous base and upright, flaring growth of channeled, tapering leaves. The color is light green with faint reddish mottling, and a grayish wash on the leaf undersides. Marginal spines are moderate. The inflorescence can be completely hidden in the center or slightly exerted, with pink bracts and blue flowers. An easy plant to cultivate.

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The former Abromeitiella brevifolia, a name still used by many, especially in the succulent world. An interesting, miniature terrestrial from Bolivia and Argentina, smallest of the genus, with neat, compact rosettes about the diameter of a U.S. nickel, with short, succulent, silvery leaves ending in a sharp spine.

In nature it grows on steep hillsides or rock faces in cool, arid regions, forming mounds of tens of thousands of plants. Adapts well to pot culture, forming pillow-like clusters. Likes plenty of water in warm weather, but prefers to be allowed to dry thoroughly after watering.

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. 

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Yet unnamed, this Sharon Petersen hybrid of Dyckia choristaminea and an unreported other Dyckia as pollen parent is a smaller grower. Compact rosettes of narrow, bronze/red leaves dusted with silvery white scurffing are about six inches across when mature. The leaves, though narrow, are wider than the choristaminea parent, at about a quarter inch.