🌵 VIPP SPECIALS 🌵
Billbergia 'Kahakai'
9702
This is one of Dennis Heckart's creations. The cross is Billbergia sanderiana x Billbergia vittata 'Domingos Martin'. Characteristics of both parents come through when looking at this plant. The leaves are medium green in color. The leaves are banded and spotted with white. Noticeable black spines occur along the leaf edges. At anthesis the inflorescence is a pink pendant.
Dyckia 'Mercury' f2
3866
Seed grown plants of this back cross of Mercury, tends to have fairly narrow leaves with large spines, giving a scalloped appearance to the leaf margins. Dark bronzy to brown base color with silver scurff.
*Domestic shipping only due to leaf damage
Dyckia reitzii v. rubra x 'Arizona'
7717
A dense rosette of glossy, coppery to chestnut-brown recurving leaves and marginal spines. We are offering a select seedling from the grex. Dyckias prefer to be grown in bright light to full sun.
*Domestic shipping only due to leaf damage
Hohenbergia magnispina 'Karla'
8737
A stunning sport of the species that probably needs no introduction. Since its initial release it has been eagerly sought by collectors from all over the world. One of the upright, tubular or vase shaped species of Hohenbergia, it is a relatively small grower with thick, leathery leaves bearing huge marginal spines and curling downwards towards the tips. The form known as 'Karla' sported in the collection of Herman Prinsler of Germany and he named it after his wife. Now widely distributed but still much sought, easy to grow in 'typical' bromeliad conditions, perhaps a bit on the dry side.
*Domestic shipping only due to leaf damage
Neoregelia 'Bob Spivey'
2419
A smallish plant to about 12in with rich red leaves and yellowish-green spotting, red leaf tips and slight banding.
*VIPP plants are Offsets
Neoregelia 'Little Africa' x 'Strawberry'
5440
A Grace Goode hybrid of 'Mandela' and an unknown pollen parent. A small, compact grower with broad leaves to two inches wide in a nine inch rosette. The color is dark brownish green with a dark purple veneer.
Neoregelia 'Simply Red'
9285
A complex Chester Skotak hybrid. A large grower that offsets before anthesis. It has green leaves with ivory colored margins and the whole plant develops a dark red veneer before anthesis. Anthesis color is a darker red. This one will be good for landscaping.
*Domestic shipping only
Neoregelia 'Velox'
7637
A beautiful hybrid from Brazil with a unique pattern and attractive high arching shape. The plant forms a full rosette of inch and a half wide leaves that arch gracefully forming an umbel shape. The color is most unusual, base light green is covered overall with a glossy red veneer. The green shows through in a series of broken stripes, leaving a striated pattern on the leaf. A real beauty.
*Domestic shipping only
Neoregelia species (burgundy with spots)
3546
An as yet unidentified species brought from Brazil some years ago by RL Frasier. A small grower with inch wide, thick, pointed, leaves in an 8 inch rosette with 2 inch stolons. Color is burgundy with small yellow spots. Needs good bright light and a bit drier for best color and form.
*VIPP plants are Offsets
Tillandsia 'Merlin'
5078
A stunning hybrid of (pseudobaileyi x streptophylla) by Robert Spivey that is a perfect balance of the two parents. It has clean lines with a bulbous base and upright terete foliage that is slightly wavy and silvery gray. The inflorescence is erect with several branches, slightly exceeding the foliage. The scape and branches are bright pink becoming silvery white. A choice hybrid and easy to grow.Â