Similar species to compacta, but larger and (we think) nicer. A large grower with light green, slightly mottled, spineless leaves which flush deep red with white speckles in the center when blooming. Pups are stoloniferous and upright.

(Blooming photo courtesy of Florida Council of Bromeliad Societies)

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A small grower with an upright, vase shape and stoloniferous habit. The color is uniformly dark purplish, darker in bright conditions. A hybrid of unreported parentage, it probably has paucifolia in its background.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

We are not quite sure that there is an interesting story behind the name of this Chester Skotak hybrid, but I am just as happy to not know what it is. This handsome, robust grower is a cross of a selected dark clone of Aechema fendleri with the fabulously popular Aechmea ‘Blue Tango’. The result is a stunning, variegated plant with red tinted foliage and a spectacular blue and pink inflorescence.

A small species with narrow, coppery to grayish-green leaves in an 8 inch tall, bulbous based rosette. It has an inflorescence consisting of a red spike, red bracts and a cluster of yellowish branches. A nice, clumping pot plant that is also suitable for terrariums.

*VIPP plants are Offsets, as pictured

A rare hybrid of Hechtia argentea x tillandsioides named after Dorothy Byer. It Is not clear if this is a natural hybrid or a man-made hybrid, but was named by Dorothy along with Dutch Vandervort.

Hechtia hybrids are very rarely made as it takes a male and female plant, blooming at the same time, not just two different plants. A large grower with very many narrow, tapering leaves in a full, leafy rosette. The leaves arch gracefully, somewhat recurving. The marginal spines are very reduced, but are sharp and the plant should be handled with caution as the leaf edges can cut your skin quite easily. 

An interesting stoloniferous plant with stiff greenish-coppery leaves in an open rosette. The center cup flushes orange when in bloom and the stoloniferous habit makes an interesting cluster.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

This plant came from a collector in Brazil and we do not have any data on it related to locality. It does resemble plants in the group of Neos going as carcharodon of one sort or another. A medium grower to 20 inches across or so, with wide leaves in a stacked up rosette shape. The leaves are fairly thick and leathery with stout marginal spines, light green blushing coppery pink and suffused with reddish speckles and a black leaf tips ending in a hook like spine.

*VIPP plants are Offsets - NOT the mature plant in the photo

A widespread species that is found in many habitats from south Texas to Guatemala. This one has narrow green leaves with small sharp spines. The foliage is covered with white trichomes on the underside of the leaves. There is a noticeable leaf imprint on the underside of the leaf.   We have not seen it bloom yet. This clone comes from Queretaro, Mexico, and was collected by Andy Siekkenen and carries his accession number: AS047.

This is one of the most sought Dyckia hybrids for its own beauty as well as for a hybrid parent. A leafy, symmetrical rosette of narrowly tapering leaves with prominent marginal spines. Color is bronzy-green becoming dark chestnut brown with a purplish tint and a silvery sheen. The huge marginal spines are starkly silvery white. A choice plant, this is a piece of the original clone.

A miniature grower that resembles N. olens, with an upright rosette shape and stoloniferous habit. A yellowish-green plant with red leaf tips and a suffusion of red spots and speckles and a cherry red center flush.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A rare plant from Brazil that grows in a large rosette to about three feet across. In good light the leaves are green, tinted with copper color and slightly banded. The inflorescence looks very much like that of Ae. pineliana, having a corn-cob shape and small, light blue flowers.

*VIPP plants are Offsets