This beautiful hybrid from the hand of the late Jim Elmore is a cultivar of cruenta (rubra) x chlorosticta Hyb. #418'. Trying to achieve colorful plants that do not need to be in bloom to be at their best, this is one of his success stories. A medium to large green plant with a symmetrical shape of stiff leaves, bearing a net-like pattern of red. The mottled pattern is very evident, but very delicate.

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A cultivar of (limbata x kegeliana) by Bill Timm, a large growing, unusual cross. The plant forms a large open rosette shape of many narrow, tapering silvery leaves. Very full, it can easily reach 30 inches across and over a foot tall without the inflorescence. The inflorescence is tall but has a short rachis with many long, semi-terete branches, some compound, numbering fifteen or so. The color is pale red to rusty orange over green, with purple flowers. 

A medium size terrestrial species from Bahia Brazil. As far as we know this is the first time this species is being offered for sale. Silver green leaves that can have some golden brown hues. The rosette is tight with tapering leaves that hooked spines along the edges. Grows best in high light. At this time we do not know which species it is.

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A selected clone of a cross of (Dyckia ‘Brittle Star’ f2 x estevesii) x estevesii was a part of Ray Lemieux’s attempt to breed a distichous growing hybrid, like the parent species; estevesii. He got close here as the plants start out with distichous growth but tend to change over to a rosette eventually. A very leafy plant with many stiff, recurving, bronzy to purplish-green leaves with massive, sharp marginal spines. An attractive foliage plant. The inflorescence is a branched scape with small orange flowers.

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We received these plants as straight Tillandsia seleriana but quickly realized there was something different about them. After further research we have decided the plant to be Tillandsia 'Selerepton', a hybrid of Tillandsia seleriana x streptophylla. Our plants grow to about 12 inches in height before blooming. 

This plant came to us years ago as species fosteriana, and although the bloom spike resembles that species, the plant does not. The wide leaves, big spines and deep silver coloration inspired our former terrestrial grower, Ray Lemieux, to name it after an old male gorilla. He said "It's big and bad". A choice plant.

A medium green flaring tube with white blotches and spots. The leaf edges have distinct black spines. Mature height is 12 inches tall. Grows best in bright filtered light.

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If few Fosterellas are of horticultural interest, this one is an exception! Dennis collected this remarkable species in Bolivia, above the Rio Azio, near the spot where the Bolivian army ambushed and killed Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary. Aside from all this great historical value, it is a lovely plant to boot! The foliage is light green with wide leaves in a spreading rosette. The inflorescence is remarkable because the many lovely coral colored flowers are tubular and hang like little bells, the only such flowers in the genus, and hummingbird pollinated.

This plant was originally collected by Dennis Cathcart on travels in Bolivia.

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A small growing hybrid by Odean. Narrow leaves in an upright, funnel form rosette, with  green base color, red tips and a red veneer of blotching and banding. Slight red color in the center of the plant at anthesis.

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A pink form of this spectacular cross by Steve Correale of (chiapensis x fasciculata ‘Magnificent’) SC. A good blend of the parents; the basic shape of a fasciculata, but with more ‘substance’ and scurffing, like the chiapensis parent. The inflorescence has the shape of the fasciculata, which is an outstanding form native to northern Panama, but is a bit thicker and heavily dusted with the silver trichomes over red that makes the inflorescence fuzzy pink like that of the chiapensis parent. When well grown, one of the most spectacular of Tillandsias.