A really beautiful, wide leaved, compact growing Neo by Ray Coleman. A clone of RC179 (Fr cruenta x con) x Takemura Princeps. Very black at the leaf tips and inward for a few inches. The base color is bronzy green, mottled with blackish veneer and bearing dark concentric banding. The center flush at anthesis is purple, but is not strong. A choice plant.

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A miniature from Grace Goode is a hybrid of (‘Fireball’ x olens) that forms an open rosette about 6 to 8 inches across. The foliage is coppery to bright crimson, depending on cultural conditions. The leaves are covered in dark red speckles with a center blush of deep red at anthesis.

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Nice glossy, deep red color with lots of yellow-green dots. To 24 inches across with 2 inch wide leaves. Red coloration is about 75% and the spotting about 25%. There are tons of spotted and speckled plants, but really, this is a nice one. You should try it!

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A miniature hybrid by Lisa Vinzant. Light green leaves with red bands. Matures at 8 inches across and 5 inches tall. Prefers bright filtered light. 

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A Ray Coleman cultivar from the same grex that produced ‘Unseasonably Hot‘ though it doesn’t look anything like it. This plant is a beauty in a full rosette of glossy, yellow tinted green leaves that have a reddish wash and a veneer of red spots and flecks overall. The leaf tips are apiculate and red. Moderate spines on the margins of the 1.5 inch wide leaves. A choice plant!

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This is one of two hybrids from Chester Skotak that were to be showcased at the 2020 World Bromeliad Conference. This is one beefy plant with remarkable characteristics. It is a large grower maxing out at 32 inches across and 18 inches tall with 3.5 inch wide leaves. Its leaves are margined with white and edged with fine black spines. The rosette grows up and flares out. There are broken bands of blackish red that seem to migrate towards the outer edge. It has a light red veneer that intensifies at anthesis.

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A cultivar ‘Big Bands’ x ‘Marcon’ by Jim Irvin. It superficially resembles ‘Aztec’ but is a cleaner looking plant with narrower leaves, 2.5 inches wide, of dark burgundy and with yellow-green spots and blotches throughout.

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Neoregelia cruenta x concentrica. This handsome plant has moderately stiff leaves of pale green, and a red blush from the tips inward as plant matures.

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A really nice, short, fat species from Madagascar with stiff conical spines covering the caudex and branches. The deciduous foliage is stiff and light green. One of the showiest bloomers of the genus, producing a profusion of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers with flaring corollas. Blooms in small containers, never gets too big.

THIS PLANT IS ON C.I.T.E.S. AND CANNOT BE EXPORTED

An outstanding African species with a thick, silver trunk that can become very fat and squat, with many contorted branches. Showy when in bloom, with clusters of white flowers, it is deciduous in winter. Strong light and generally hard conditions make more attractive specimens, and a old plant may take on the caudex size and shape of a soccer ball, with contorted, narrow branches to about 24 inches. Native to south-west Africa, from southern Zimbabwe to northern Natal. It is an easy species to grow.

A stunning hybrid that is a happenstance of nature. We imported a number of wild bromeliads from Mexico back in the 1980's and early '90s and this plant and one or two others of apparently the same natural cross: (streptophylla x botterii) were among them.

A large grower with characteristics of both parents. The basic shape of botterii along with the shape of the inflorescence but the thick texture and silvery trichomes of streptophylla. An upright, spreading vase, bulbous at the base, with silvery, half inch wide, fairly stiff, channeled leaves. The inflorescence is large, taller than the foliage with a red rachis and long, petiolate branches that are mostly yellow. A dramatic, beautiful plant. 

This plant is an apparent natural hybrid but we are reasonably certain that it is a cross of (riohondoensis x ionantha) that came in with a shipment of the former from Guatemala some years ago. We have been propagating it ever since. The plant has many narrow, velvety leaves in an upright vase shaped rosette. It can grow to over ten inches tall and wide with leaves about a half inch wide tapering to a point. The inflorescence is a capitate head of very tight branches on a short scape bearing long leaf-like bracts. The bracts blush pink at anthesis along with the upper whorl of leaves.

Overall the plant is silvery with a heavy coating of trichomes. The leaves are soft and graceful. We are naming this plant in honor of our dear friend Ruby Ryde of Australia. An avid bromeliad collector of many years with her late husband Keith and who has for years faithfully sent us a beautiful calendar of Australian nature each December. She is our ‘Calendar Girl’ and we are proud to have her as our friend!