From the vicinity of Municipio de Grao Mogol, in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil. A smallish species with secund leaves bearing very large marginal spines. The color silvery green to whitish with new growth being bright green. Sun exposure can cause the leaves to tint reddish or dark brownish-red. The inflorescence reaches about three feet tall and is simple, brownish-silver with flowers bearing green petals. The habit is clustering with short rhizomes. Grows in dry, rocky cerrado vegetation. 

Northern Mindanao Bromeliads ©2002 Juanilla Alfonso-Go 400+ beautiful color photos of spectacularly colored bromeliads grown on this Philippine island. 38 pages.

A miniature Neoregelia hybrid from Lisa Vinzant. Light green rosette with narrow variegation. It has intermittent bands and spots of red. Matures at 6 inches across.

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This is a selfing of David Bordeaux's hybrid Cat Fight. A selected clone that has wide silver green succulent leaves that are edged with widely spaced green gold spines. The rosettes grow to a average of 8 to 10 inches across.

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A medium size growing Dyckia by Bill Baker. This plant has broad leaves tapering to a point, curving slightly downward in a graceful rosette to about 10 inches across. The color is dark green with heavy white scurf, almost white in strong light with bold-white triangular spines set one against the next along the leaf margins. Grows best in bright filtered light to full sun. If you want to grow in the full sun makes sure it is watered on a regular basis. 

An interesting sport of the species, this produces a white inflorescence rather than the usual pink. Only a few available.

Stephania suberosa is a caudex forming shrub from Cambodia and Thailand. The caudex has a rough skin reminding some of a turtles shell. The foliage is a vine with heart shaped leaves. Grows best in a well draining soil and doesn't like it's soil to stay wet.

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The largest form, native to the desert valleys of central Ecuador. Often found growing as a saxicole or on cacti, this form differs from the typical in being much larger, with a bulbous base that can reach three inches in diameter and strictly upright, fine reddish-brown leaves. The inflorescence is longer, exceeding the foliage by several inches, branched and producing many yellow flowers which have a mild fragrance. An easy species to cultivate. Grows into a nice slightly stoloniferous cluster and does well mounted or potted in a very loose, well-drained media.

A nice small hybrid from Lisa Vinzant. A loose rosette of green leaves and the plant develops brick red crossbands. Grows best in bright filtered light.

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A large growing, green-leaved form of Tillandsia flabellata from Mexico. Growing in an upright rosette with half-inch wide leaves up to 15 inches long or more, it produces a very large, branched, orange-red inflorescence that rises well above the foliage. Can be grown potted or mounted, it is a sub-mesic species. 

*VIPP plants are offsets, not in bud