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Wierdest/coolest bromeliads


JD in the OC

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Palmcrazy inspired me to start a post with some bromeliads you may not see every day...

Aec. Black on Black

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Aec. fendleri variegated

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Neo. Shockwave

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They can be very addictive but I am restricting my collection now to good landscaping varieties.

Andrew,
Airlie Beach, Whitsundays

Tropical Queensland

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Wow, some very nice ones there! Thanks for posting! :)

Bo-Göran

Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm

 

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Gonzer, those are way cool! I like the cascading tillandsia! aec. fasciata albo-marg is hard to beat too!

Puya grafii

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Pitcairnia funkiae

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xBillmea Pancho

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Nice brooms it's been raining here again on off on off, so it's off for minute so out I ran cam in hand anyway here are a few rainy brooms .

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the broom tree

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Great thread, I am a bromeliad fan, for sure! :)

Bill, your pic #3 -- Oooops! I just tucked a few of those maybe too close to my Dypsis carlsmithii -- which do you think will grow faster? :lol:

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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All looking Fantastic, Broms certainly add a full spectrum of colour to gardens. :)

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Grrr I buy so many broms in all those lovely colours and no matter where I put them they turn green or purple/black. I've moved the rotten things so often its amazing they arent suffering from motion sickness.

Peachy :rage:

I came. I saw. I purchased

 

 

27.35 south.

Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.

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All looking Fantastic, Broms certainly add a full spectrum of colour to gardens. :)

Peter the frist one of the broom in the tree came from one of your post of putting them on trees, thanks for the great idea. How about pic.drool.gif

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Great pics everyone..here are some of mine this morning…..

I like stollys in any genus… here area couple of billbergias……Billbergia amoena stolonifera, and a couple of shots of B. 'Foster's Striate'

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Rusty Bell

Pine Island - the Ex-Pat part of Lee County, Fl , USA

Zone 10b, life in the subs!...except when it isn't....

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A Neo. Mcwilliamsii….variegated…if you squint….. :lol: ......and a hyper albo Neo Bossa Nova

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Rusty Bell

Pine Island - the Ex-Pat part of Lee County, Fl , USA

Zone 10b, life in the subs!...except when it isn't....

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Aec nudacaulis ‘Candy Cane’, and out in the garden Neo Tangerine and climbing in a sea hibiscus Aec Little Harv

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Rusty Bell

Pine Island - the Ex-Pat part of Lee County, Fl , USA

Zone 10b, life in the subs!...except when it isn't....

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I like the nudicaulis candy cane Rusty. IS that a registered cultivar? Just just a really nice nudicaulis 'rubra'?

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I like the nudicaulis candy cane Rusty. IS that a registered cultivar? Just just a really nice nudicaulis 'rubra'?

JD, as far as am able to discern, this is an unregistered CV, and you may be correct that it is a 'rubra' variant....and the nudicaulis tribe seem to start differently as a offset and digress as established group.

Nevertheless, i have a very small 'rubra' that appears different.....at least i think it is somewhere in this mess :blink:

BTW, cool pic on the xBillmea Pancho.......looks like it has some Aec. recurvata in it's lineage...any clues???????

Thanks for your pics, always enjoy them..

Rusty

Rusty Bell

Pine Island - the Ex-Pat part of Lee County, Fl , USA

Zone 10b, life in the subs!...except when it isn't....

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Rusty, yes it does have recurvata in it. Good eye! I suppose the inflorescence shares an affinity...

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Wow, lots of great looking bromeliads! Impossible to even attempt to list my favorites. And I guess they can't be called "favorites" when most of them look so great... :)

Bo-Göran

Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm

 

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Wow, really spectacular specimens!

Greg, the first photo in post #7 really caught my eye, most unusual color.

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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The black rock really shows off the color on these. Feel free to post more.

With a tin cup for a chalice

Fill it up with good red wine,

And I'm-a chewin' on a honeysuckle vine.

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Bromeliad collectors are just as wacky as palm people , if not more. We have to bare our naked skin upon the vicious, spine-laden leaves that savagely rip and shred our appendages to the very marrow of our bones! (pretty good huh?) Hell! I've got wounds from 20 years ago that never heal up from the constant abuse the plants give me.face-icon-small-sad.gif

Rusty and JD? Awesome stuff guys!

Tim, the white spotted Billbergia is 'Strawberry Creme'.

Edited by Gonzer

 

 

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Thanks Greg, that is one beautiful bromeliad.

Here are a few more.

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Nidularium Brazil gold varigata

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Another Nidularium

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Hohenbergia leopold horst

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Guzmania x vriesia hybrid phoenix

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Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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I like the weird ugly prickly type ones .. here is Aechmea pittieri , still not flowered it .

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Aechmea contracta is another strange looking petiolate leafed species . Got several in flower now , but just love the spotty foliage .post-354-005804200 1333452814_thumb.jpg

Aechmea incompta is another pretty ugly thing , got an infl. aging into a nice pink colour .

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Michael in palm paradise,

Tully, wet tropics in Australia, over 4 meters of rain every year.

Home of the Golden Gumboot, its over 8m high , our record annual rainfall.

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Dyckia "Burgundy Ice", viscous little suckers :rolleyes:

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"If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

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Tim, that white varigated plant is a Nidularium?

weird ugly prickly type ones

You'd like me Michael, describes me to a "T".

 

 

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Tim, the mostly white variegated one looks like a Neo. You're 6th pic is a Neo. Orange Crush maybe. Youre 7th pic is of a Neo. painted delight (Bot) and Neo. sandy (top). All pretty rare!

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Tim, the mostly white variegated one looks like a Neo. You're 6th pic is a Neo. Orange Crush maybe. Youre 7th pic is of a Neo. painted delight (Bot) and Neo. sandy (top). All pretty rare!

I concur with JD about the white plant in question.

 

 

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Nice broms ! up some pics...

Billbergia Hallelujah and Neo hybrid

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Neo red hybrid (left) and Neo farinosa

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Neo "Mo Peppa please" and chlorostica

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Neo "Sun Devil"

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And some Aechmeas...

Aechmea nudicaulis

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nudicaulis red

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young red clone of Alcantarea imperialis

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my first blanchetiana and aquilega

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Great pictures everyone.

This is one product I found today,..... is this a good product or should I use something else?

Thanks,

Roger.

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Great pictures everyone.

This is one product I found today,..... is this a good product or should I use something else?

Thanks,

Roger.

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Not good for terrestrial broms Roger. That's what I use for my Tillandsia as it is a special formulation for plants that do not have roots that interact with soil. You will notice in the ingredients that there is no nitrogen derived from Urea. Urea needs microbes in soil to break down and be used by the plant, hence this food is made for epiphytic plants. Feeding "normal" bromeliads should be done very sparingly, especially plants with colorful leaves. A fertilizer with a higher ratio of N than P or K will generally leach the colorful patterns from the leaves. For potted bromeliads my choice is "Cactus Juice"® which is a 1-7-6 formula and used only once or twice during the season. This gives my Billbergias their tight tube-like shape. Too much and you end up with floppy leaves. A splash of fish emulsion in the water is good also. Always feed bromeliads sparingly

 

 

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Thanks for the reply boys, I could have mixed the names up......you know how that goes sometimes. I got most of those from Dennis Shiigi who knows them by name, no tags. I try to nail him down on names,

but not always possible. The broms are so beautiful though.

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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Gonzer, since you like Tillys, thought you might like to see this one.....T. 'Tropiflora'....its a fasciculata cultivar, and huge!!! :drool:

...my arm needed to be a foot longer and i could have taken a better pic! :mrlooney:

Rusty

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Rusty Bell

Pine Island - the Ex-Pat part of Lee County, Fl , USA

Zone 10b, life in the subs!...except when it isn't....

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Yessiree Rusty, Dennis has a nice plant there. The coloring of the inflorescence is what sets it apart from other fasciculata cultivars/hybrids. Those spreading types of Tillandsias take up a lot of space since the leaves aren't really geared for bending, unlike other genera.

 

 

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Tim, the mostly white variegated one looks like a Neo. You're 6th pic is a Neo. Orange Crush maybe. Youre 7th pic is of a Neo. painted delight (Bot) and Neo. sandy (top). All pretty rare!

I concur with JD about the white plant in question.

I also agree that this is a neo, a very very nice one at that :drool:

If anyone can put a name to this one for me I would be gratefull, the following 2 photos are of the same plant growing in different conditions, more yellow in the shade and more pink in the sun (full sun!). It is an aechmea luedemanniana var??? (not alvareaz or mend?)

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One of my most recent aquisitions and new favourites is this Neo "Yang"...very spikey neo. I hear there is a "Yin" to go with this "Yang"??

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