This ‘green form’ ofTillandsiaedithaeisn’t really green. It’s a form with more adpressed trichomes, giving the plant a more glabrous, less fuzzy, silvery appearance. In fact, in the summer here in Florida, the ‘silver form’ tends to get a bit of algae on the trichomes from the high humidity, giving it an actual green appearance.
Anyway, the ‘green form’ is different enough to warrant a cultivar name to distinguish it from the more typical, silver form. Other than that, the bloom and all aspects of growth are about the same, the leaves are perhaps a bit stiffer and a bit more compact but nearly the same as the silver form. Both are beautiful caulescent plants with short, broadly triangular, silvery-gray leaves and a stunning red-flowered inflorescence.
Native of Bolivia, they live a lithophytic existence on sheer rock cliffs, hanging in massive cascades. Care-free to grow, when mounted in a pendant fashion, they freely produce offsets along the old portions of their stems, soon forming large attractive clusters.
Note that in the second photo, both forms are there for comparison, even though it is hard to tell the apart in the photo. In life it is much easier!
*Recently (May 2024) renamed to T. iglari
Peter Tristram from Australia examined formerly, T. edithae 'Green Clone', and determines the genetic sequencing if different from the other species edithae. Thus naming this variety its own species, Tillandsia iglari.
A cultivar of (calyculata x recurvata) is a tough and handsome small grower that keeps a compact shape in varying light conditions. The recurvata parent lends an upright, compact, vase-like shape, and the calyculata parent adds the bright yellow flowering inflorescence. Nice for landscape around boulders.
I know bromeliaceae that I have grown and known way up here in the frozen tundra. Yes, here in East Tennessee USA the land is stretched out horizontally east to west. Formerly from the Atlantic Coast to the great Mississippi River, as Carolina, after Andrew Jackson evicted all the Cherokee Nation.....
Any way I digress.
This is one of my current top ten cold hardy landscaping bromeliads. Originally I got one offset from nurseryman, hybridizer, and all round nice guy Grant Groves maybe 10 years ago.
With out a name tag.
But I know bromeliaceae, and I've been growing them since 1979. This Ae. 'Phoenix' is the same clonotype, or cultivated variety.
Xander Karatas. Somewhere in the Smokies.
M
Malcolm M.
Aechmea Phoenix - looking forward to seeing it bloom!
The plant arrived in good condition, and I can't wait to see it bloom.
Dyckia 'California'
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A hybrid from Bill Baker. Compact growth from of glossy burgundy leaves that are recurved. Has distinct white marginal spines. The rosette is up to 8 inches across at maturity. Grows best in full sun.
A cultivar of a hybrid by Chan with only the seed parent being named: ‘Morning Star’. A neat, compact rosette of fairly stiff, dark silvery leaves that are about ¾ inch wide and taper to a point. The marginal spines are stout and serrate, white in color.
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Clumping, smaller form which matures at only about 12 to 18in. Native to Colombia, it has slightly grayish-green leaves with darker reticulations, arranged along a short stem. This plant has a clustering habit and produces multiple branched spikes of yellow. Not a rare plant, but nice.
When I moved back to my hometown, I moved with my growing bromeliad collection.
By 1986 I was beginning to cross pollenate broms.
I bought a Vriesea ospinae which grew well in my greenhouse. It was a prolific pup producer. Never got it to bloom, yet it was a beautiful green foliage clump.
In the new century I bought this species again from Tropiflora, now reclassified as genus Goudaea. It's still an attractive bromeliad, no matter the name.
A Alexander Callison
Rainforest.
Neoregelia ampullacea
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Small stoloniferous plants, green with red spots. Can take on an overall reddish hue in bright conditions. Great for terrariums and hanging pots.
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