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Bromeliads Galore

PalmatierMeg

By PalmatierMeg
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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Last Saturday I and my oh-so-patient husband trekked over to Terry Park in Ft. Myers for the annual bromeliad sale. In the past year I've developed great affection for genus Cryptanthus. Okay, they aren't flashy with knock-your-eyeballs-out neon color but they are interesting, compact and often prolific. I planted clones of last year's purchases beneath our lemon trees in the back yard where they lurk happily in the mulch. Most of my purchases this year were also Cryptanthus but I branched out into some ferocious Dyckia and Orthophytum along with a few other types. Yesterday I took photos which started out in sunshine but as the latest accursed cold front approached, conditions got cloudier, darker, then rainy so not all photos turned out well. Also, I couldn't make out handwriting on all the tags, so correct my spelling.

Cryptanthus Bonnie

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Cryptanthus bromeliodes Lavender

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Cryptanthus colnagoi

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Cryptanthus colnagoi green form

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Cryptanthus Honey Girl

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Cryptanthus Key Lime Pie

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Cryptanthus menescal

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Cryptanthus microglaziouii

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Cryptanthus Pomegranate

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Cryptanthus Rainbow Star

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Cryptanthus sinuosis

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Cryptanthus Tracy's Tutu

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Cryptanthus Uluweha

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Cryptanthus Uluweha Lerico x bromeliodies

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Cryptanthus Warren Loosei

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Nice scores, Meg. I've been to that sale once. Every year it seems we have 10 things to do the weekend it occurs!

Palmmermaid

Kitty Philips

West Palm Beach, FL

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Dyckia(???) Brittle Star f2

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Dyckia goehringii

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Dyckia jonesiana

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Dyckia naked lady

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Mystery (Neoregelia?) bromeliad

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Neoregelia Treasure Chest

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Orthophytum leprosam

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Orthophytum navioides

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Vriesea Gigantica Nova

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x Neophytum Burgundy Hill. The photos came out really dark because of rain but this plant is absolutely gorgeous.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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The Crypies grow very well, planted out . I had a great collection down south . Rainbow Star will form a great clump .

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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Gorgeous Vriesea and nice in general!! You have done well :)

Regards, Ari :)

Ari & Scott

Darwin, NT, Australia

-12°32'53" 131°10'20"

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Gorgeous Vriesea and nice in general!! You have done well :)

Regards, Ari :)

I believe the Vriesea gigantea Nova was only $8

Good buy for a nice looking vriesea

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