New Bromeliad Photos

[Neofolis]

A few photos from a recent trip.  Unfortunately the were very few labels, so if anyone can help with ID's on these Brom's, it would be very much appreciated.

This one looks a little like Vriesea forsteriana, but I don't think it is, because I'm sure I've seen this before with a different name.

Next, possibly another Vriesea.  It was near to some Vriesea splendens, one of which can be partly seen at the bottom of the picture.

This one looks, to me, like the variegated form of Neoregelia olens, but if the rad part is the flower, that can't be possible as Neo's have their flower inside the leaf cup I believe.

Not sure about this one at all, as there seem to be loads of small Brom's that look like these.

[Neofolis]

Just one more, which looks very similar to my Neoregelia "Fancy Free", but again there are a few that look similar.

[tipper55]

The first picture looks like Vriesea 'Red Chestnut' and the third picture is definitely a Guzmania of some kind.

[paulgila]

nice plants.are they growing indoors?

[metalfan]

#3 looks more like a Guzmania than a Neo.

[junglegalfla]

#4 could be be neo merlot, I agree that #3 is a guz too.

[Neofolis]

Thanks all, yes, Guzmania makes more sense with the flower shape.  I may try to look through the FCBS gallery to identify them, but that may take a while with all of the species and hybrids they have pictured.

[Neofolis]

(pohonkelapa @ Aug. 27 2007,20:15)

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nice plants.are they growing indoors?

Yes Paul, they are in the new Tropical Glasshouse at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

[paulgila]

looks cool.what else do they have ???

[Neofolis]

To be honest Paul, it was a bit of a disappointment.  The Tropical Glasshouse only opened in July and cost £2.2M, so I was expecting good things, but it is very small compared with others I have visited, not very much variety and many plants not labelled.  The Brom's were really the highlight for me, because most of the Tropical Glasshouses I have visited have few, if any and those that do tend to have things that I would see in local garden centres.  In terms of palms, they had a nice clump of Areca vestiaria, a reasonable sized Cocos, three 6'/1.8m approx. Licuala grandis, some Joey altifrons, a few small Howea forsteriana and three species of Rhapis.

I will probably post more pictures at some point, but I'm way behind with my website maintenance and I have another couple of prior trips that I also want to post pictures of, so it may be a while.