A real cute small growing compact plant, reaching only 8 to 10 inches. The leaves, forming a dense symmetrical rosette, are deep green with abundant red spotting and blotching. A hybrid by Odean Head, named after his wife, Betty.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

NEW SKOTAK WORLDWIDE RELEASE

A new 2024 release from Chester Skotak. A large grower that matures at 32 inches across. Medium green with white margins Numerous wavy cross-bands throughout the leaves. The veneer is bright red. Grows best in bright filtered light.

Sharon Peterson's hybrid of ('Lambert's Pride' x olens). Overall color is a light tangerine-orange, suffused with tiny red speckles. Leaf tips are bright red and cup color at anthesis is also red. Somewhat upright in habit, about 18 inches across and 12 inches tall. Very full, with 30+ leaves.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A spectacular cultivar of (carolinae x fosteriana) x carcharodon by Chester Skotak. A large growing plant with gracefully arching 3½ inch wide leaves in a 30 inch rosette. The background color is dark brown to almost black, with pink variegation. Numerous red specks are scattered evenly over leaf, and a dusting of silvers trichomes gives the plant a matte finish. Relatively large marginal spines are soft and match the color of the leaf. Color flush at anthesis is minimal, slightly reddish.

An ampullacea (hybrid?) from Chester Skotak. We don't know much about this plant but presume it is from Rafael DeFaria in Rio de Janeiro originally, for whom Chester named it. A nice, heavily banded, dark plant to about 6 inches tall with stiff leaves in an upright rosette. The leaves are banded on the upper and undersides and have slight red tips.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

An Australian hybrid from Shane Zaghini, Neoregelia 'Spotted Night' is a loose rosette to 12 inches, with fairly broad green leaves, strongly banded below with dark purple.

The late Jim Elmore was ahead of his time when he made many interesting Neoregelia hybrids back in the mid 1970s. Some are quite beautiful and are with us today and some have disappeared from cultivation unless they exist here and there in private collections. This cross of 'Pepper' x 'Foster's Freckles' is a smaller grower than most of his others and forms 8 inch rosettes with somewhat bottle shaped bases. The leaves are broad and light green to yellowish when stressed and covered with many red spots. The offsets are on short stolons and the center blushes slightly reddish at anthesis with large blue flowers.

This plant has become a superstar since its limited introduction a few years ago, finding a ready market at high prices at bromeliad conventions and shows. Now commonly used as a hardy landscape plant, it’s is a spectacular, large-growing plant with heavy reddish-brown bars across light green leaves. Large marginal spines line the wide, stiff leaves. A superior plant for hybridizing, Hannibal Lecter being an example.

It should be noted that this plant has no official botanical status. It was brought into cultivation by Chester Skotak after having found it in a Brazilian collection. Lacking a better description for now, it is being referred to as carcharodon cv. ‘Tiger’. The ‘real’ carcharodon is unknown and many not be in cultivation at all.

A nice plant that resembles a small N. cruenta in shape and coloration. Stiff, light green leaves with red tips form 8 to 10 inch funnel form rosettes on short stolons. A ‘thumb print’ marks the base of the leaf.

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