🌵 VIPP SPECIALS 🌵
Aechmea kertesziae
4423
An attractive pot plant or hardy landscape plant, cylindrical spike with rose-red bracts and yellow flowers. A medium sized clustering plant with an upright rosette shape and short stolons. The green foliage has a dusting of trichomes giving a slight grayish appearance.
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Aechmea recurvata 'Blackie'
7373
A cultivar of recurvata, probably var. benrathii, with very dark, almost black, bases. A clump forming plant that stays at about six inches tall or less.
Dyckia 'Ruby Snow'
8396
This was a marnier-lapostolle hybrid by Bill Baker with the pollen parent unknown or unreported. A medium grower with deep burgundy-red leaves, white below. The leaves bear fairly large spines and are rather thick and triangular in shape.
Encholirium diamantinum
473
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.Â
The plant size is good and all are worth the price.
Neoregelia 'Alley Cat'
6765
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.
*VIPP plants are Offsets
Neoregelia 'Fireball' x chlorosticta
2188
Neoregelia ‘Fireball’ x chlorosticta A showy, small grower to about 10 inches across in an open rosette, with light green leaves bearing red tips and a blotchy veneer of deep red.
Neoregelia 'Golden Pheasant'
9228
A nice-looking miniature by Andrew Devonshire of New Zealand is a cultivar of ampullaceal x ‘Pheasant’. A stoloniferous plant with an ampoule shape and red colored leaves with yellow broken bands. The yellow color becomes more intense with brighter light and ‘harder’ conditions and the red with yellow coloration makes a good contrast. Good for a hanging pot. Mature size is 5 inches tall and 6 inches wide.
Neoregelia 'Hannibal Lecter'
4247
Neoregelia ‘Hannibal Lecter‘ An unusual, very decorative hybrid from Chester Skotak, with a name that reflects his famed, warped wit. Three clones exist, all selections of a grex resulting from the cross of Neo. punctatissima x carcharodon ‘Tiger’. In general, the plants are medium sized, to about 24 inches across, very stiff leaved with stout spines, and boldly banded with reddish-brown over green.
*VIPP plants are Offsets - NOT the mature plant in the photo
Neoregelia 'Magnificent'
6442
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.
Neoregelia ampullacea 'Large Form'
1526
A larger clone of this familiar species, can reach over 12 inches across. An open rosette shape with light green leaves red speckled and red banded on the upper and lower sides. Red leaf tips and moderate spines finish the look. Used widely in many hybrids.
*VIPP plants are Offsets