A hybrid of A. recurvata x cylindrata. A clump-forming plant barely over six inches tall. The leaves tighten up into a nice shape and color dark, almost black in full sun. Good hardy landscape subject for rock gardens.

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This form was collected by Luther, Kress, Brown & Roesel on the Lita to San Lorenzo road in Esmeraldas, Ecuador in 1990. An upright, tubular rosette to about 16 inches, light green with silvery veneer and banding on the leaf undersides. The inflorescence is yellow with yellow flowers and bright orange bracts. An easy plant to grow and good for mounting.

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Tubular rosette of olive green to black with mottling of white with pink veneer. Grows to 10 inches tall. Looks best in a hanging pot. Grows in bright filtered light.

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A species from the southeast coastal jungles in the State of Bahia, Brazil has many long narrow linear-lanceolate leaves forming a loose 16-inch diameter open rosette plant.  The leaf axils are rosy-brown red fading to green tips.  The leaves have small loosely spaced spines with a widely spaced crisped edge.  The offsets start appearing at the base of the plant before flowering and towards the crown during and after flowering.

A new release of ('Natalie' x goehringii) from Bryan Windham. Glossy chocolatey-purple foliage with large white spines. Thick succulent recurving leaves. Matures around 12 inches across. A striking plant! 

A Dyckia goehringii hybrid by Sueb Anyamaneetrakul from Thailand. The leaves are thick, recurving, silver white leaves heavily coated with white trichomes. Imprints of the other leaves are highly noticeable. Foliage is armed with large, hooked white spines. Grows best in bight light to full sun.

 A named cultivar of Dyckia dawsonii x marnier-lapostollei 'Pink Spines' by Bryan Windham. Recurving silver green leaves with with a light pink veneer and pink spines. The rosette has narrow recurving leaves. Mature size is 8 to 10 inches across. Grows best in strong bright light but not all day full sun.

A medium large growing hybrid. A dense rosette of short grey green recurving leaves with large spines. Leaves appear to have some lines in the scurf. Matures at 10 to 12 inches across. 

Dyckia macedoi is a terrestrial bromeliad endemic to the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Prefers to grow in full sun or bright light. Silver grey succulent leaves that have lineations and will grow to a width of 8 inches across. Not common in collections.

This is a spectacular, large-growing species, descended from plants grown from seed collected by Wally Berg on Pico do Fernando, Bahia, Brazil. The plants have hundreds of narrow, strap-like, spiny leaves at maturity, recurving downward to form a graceful ball-like shape. Encholirium species grow much like the genus Dyckia, enjoying water in the growing season and a rest in cooler weather.

Can grow in filtered light or full sun. This species is monocarpic or occasionally making one or two offsets. The bloom spike can reach 4 feet in height and branches out, the flowers are large for bromeliads, with green bracts and petals filled with a pungent, sticky fluid, possibly to attract pollinators; bats have been seen pollinating this plant.

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. 

A cultivar of Encholirium sp. #4 (Schultz) x horridum by Bryan Windham. Light green narrow leaves with hooked spines recurving downward to form a graceful ball-like shape. Prefers to be grown in bright filtered light.