Something New

This last weekend I had gone to The Caloosahatchee Bromeliad Society Annual Auction. As always on the look out for any dyckia's I don't have or any plant I think is interesting.


I did manager to pay to much for 3 plants at the auction. They are:

Pitcairnia 'Flaming Arrow' pseudoundulata x burle-marxii

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 xNeophytum  Neoregelia carolinae variegata x Orthophytum navioides

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I don't know anything about this plant but as you can see not all of the leaves are variegated. As it put out offsets some of the offsets will have more variegated leaves and some with no variegated leaves.

 xNeophytum Orthophytum navioides x Neoregelia wilsoniana

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Just a little bit about this plant.
Orthophytum navioides is a small plant and flowers in the center that turns red.
Neoregelia wilsoniana is also a small plant that is stoloniferous.
So when this starts to produce offsets they will be on stolons, its going to look great.



Dyckia beateae x platyphylla F2 (#3)

Very nice color dyckia. Love it.
Dyckia beateae the species crossed with



Dyckia platyphylla was a F2 What the father was I do not know.


From the seed that came up they were labeled with numbers, this is number 3

Dyckia's from seed

This was on XericWorld.com by Chanin in Bangkok


My (Chanin) method of sowing Dyckia seeds




http://www.xericworld.com/forums/bromeliaceae/1771-my-method-sowing-dyckia-seeds.html#post8517

Agave 'Mr.Woodrow'

At one time I was going to collect agaves. So I picked  up some about 12 or so plants. As I started to plant them in my yard I come to find out I would need a larger yard which I did not have.

 Agave angustifolia  'Mr.Woodrow'

Agave lopantha

Few more dyckia's coming in to flower

As of today 2/22/2011 this is what is coming in to flower with more to come.

 Dyckia Silver Back F2

 

 Dyckia Gray Ops

Dyckia Silver Back F2

Hechtia rosea

Hechtia rosea 1st time flowering for me.

Can anyone tell if its a male or a female plant?

xDYCKCOHNIA Bones Mahogany

xDyckcohnia Bones Mahogany

This is a rare Bigeneric

Seed Parent: Deuterocohnia brevispicata

Pollen Parent: Dyckia reitzii "Rubra"

Hybridizer: R. Lemieux 2001

I find this plant to be a slow grower and also slow to flower. I have had this plant for about 10 years or so and it only flowered once.

There is one other xDyckcohnia that I know of and it is

xDyckcohnia 'Conrad Morton'

Seed parent: Dyckia macedoi
Pollen parent: Deuterocohnia meziana

Hybridizer: Hutchinson, Paul 2002

Dyckia Michael Andreas cv of' Brittle Star F3

Dyckia Michael Andreas cv of' Brittle Star F3 in a 8 inch pot. Looks it's best when they get large.

Hechtia

Mystery hechtia

In a 3 gallon pot has lavender flowers

In a 8 inch pot gets white flowers

I have two hechtia's that look almost alike. One get a little larger and has lavender flowers. The other does not get as big and has white flowers the leaves look the same.

Tropiflora on there web-site said "females have large white flowers and the males have larger, blue-purple flowers". So this may be what I have. But Tropiflora also said " Hechtia tillandsioides One of at least three species of Hechtia from Mexico that are maddeningly similar. With narrow, soft leaves that have tiny marginal spines, almost best describes as serrations, it grows in clumps of several plants with leaves up to 3 feet long, or longer. A mature clump can reach easily 3 feet high and wide. This plant, like other Hechtias, is dioecious and what is more, the male and female plants do not even look as though they are related. Throw in the similar species caerulea and lundelliorum and the whole is a nightmare".

So I for me its still up in the air what one of these plant are. The plant with blue-purple flowers is Hechtia tillandsioides and the other one may or may not be the same but a female Hechtia tillandsioides. Last year they both flowered at the same time and I put the two flowering plant next to each other in hope of getting some seed. Not one seed or any kind of seed pod came from it.

Today (1/6/11) I tock a look at YuccaDo web-site and they have a plant with  lavender-blue flowers  and they call it Hechtia caerulea.

They also have a plant called Hechtia lundelliorum that was previously listed as Hechtia tillandsioides they don't say why the name change.

Aechmea ? Is now Aechmea bromeliifolia

Anyone know the name of this Aechmea

I have had this plant for a long time. It's a large plant about 3 feet tall or so .


UPDATE 12/14/10

Got a name from Eric Gouda and said it is a Aechmea bromeliifolia, I think he is correct.

Disocactus amazonicus

Disocactus amazonicus

Synonym: Wittiocactus panamensis, Wittia amazonica, Wittiocactus amazonicus, Wittia panamensis

This is the only Epiphytic cactus I have, most get way to large. Just love the pink tubular flowers, with bluish tips that barely open.


Scale and mealy also loves this plant. Scale, I think love it the most I have to always keep my eyes open to keep them off.

Wittia amazonica - Disocactus amazonicus

When will dyckia's flower?

When will dyckia's flower? Well for me most will flower in the spring and some in the summer. But I do have few that will flower in the fall (10/25/2010).

I should add I'm in the Northern Hemisphere. Some of the people who look at my blog are in the  Southern Hemisphere, but it's October everywhere.



They are:

 Dyckia goiana sp goiana ↑

Flowers have not opened yet so no photo

 Dyckia Icicle ↑

 Dyckia Icicle ↑

 Dyckia marnier-lapostollei ↑

 Dyckia marnier-lapostollei ↑

Dyckia sp Leme EL 1992 ↑

Flowers have not opened yet so no photo

Dyckia Icicle

I just picked this plant up this last weekend, it is in a 10 inch pot.


I was at Tropiflora's Fall Festival  but I did  not get this from Tropiflora but from some other vendor who never has dyckia's.


It has 2 flower stalks coming and the best part it was only $18. It was the only dyckia he had.

Orthophytum supthutii or Lapa duartei

Orthophytum


A little infor. about Orthophytum's
Orthophytum comprises 41 or 56 species (number depends on who you believe), An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials has only 41 and 7 varieties ) and seven varieties forming two easily distinguished
groups: one with a well-developed scape, informally called
the scapose inflorescence complex  and
the other group referred to as the sessile inflorescence complex.

The latter is further subdivided into three subcomplexes:
“subcomplex amoenum,”
“subcomplex vagans”
“subcomplex supthutii”

Orthophytum supthutiiis now Lapa duarteana

Wish I could tell the difference between them or what they may look like.  Which one's do I have in the photo's?
If anyone has photos showing the difference send them and I'll post it here.

Orthophytum supthutii is now Lapa duartei
Only 2 only 2 plant are in this new family they are:
Lapa duartei
Lapa itambensis

Lapa duartei

Orthophytum horridum

Orthophytum lucidum

Orthotanthus

 xOrthotanthus is a  bigeneric hybrid 

It is a Cryptanthus microglazioui x Orthophytum navioides

A NEW RELEASE  at 2010 World Bromeliad Conference.

This is not the first time this cross has been done, but is the first time by Michael Kiehl,  Nat DeLeon and I think Steve Hoppin also did the same cross.

That’s what fcbs.org shows but with * by Steve Hoppin name,
have no idea why.

Nat DeLeon cross was named  xOrthotanthus 'Blazing Bonsai'
Steve Hoppin I don't know if he named it when he did.

Sorry I don't have a photo of it when it was at it's best.

But it turns bright red with a lime green center. The flowers
are large and white petals. The base of the plant is surprisingly fat.

UPDATE 12/14/10

Tropiflora now had this plant for sale and they say it is a Hummel hybrid of unknown parentage.
Maybe I miss seeing some thing.

xNeophytum 'Galactic Warrior'

This is xNeophytum 'Galactic Warrior' it's a cv. of xNeophytum 'Ralph Davis' . A great looking plant in or out of flower. For me it's not easy to grow. I have seen larger plants and I don't know how they do it with out it rotting.



Well any way this one had flowered for me this summer not as well as other plants I've seen but it still flowered.

If you look close you can see it has seed pods. This is the first time I have seen seeds on this or any Neoregelia, Orthophytum or any bromeliad with the exceptions of Dyckia and Tillandsia's.

Dyckia reitzii v. rubra

I was able to get Dyckia reitzii v. rubra the other day and it was not cheap.

But one day I hope it looks like the one below and make some offsets so I could get some of my money back.

Dyckia 'Arizona' F2

All 3 are Dyckia 'Arizona' F2

Who would of thought? They are so different looking.

Bill Baker hybrid's

 Dyckia Ruby Snow

Dyckia Brittle Star

Dyckia Brittle Star

Dyckia Gray Ops

I am trying to put together a list of all named hybrids by Bill Baker. Please help if you can.

This is what I have so far.

Dyckia 'California' - was named by Bill's himself

Dyckia Brittle Star - was named by Bill's himself

Dyckia Gray Ops - was named by Bill's himself

Dyckia Zebra - was named by Bill's himself

Dyckia Tarzan - was named by Bill's himself

Dyckia Son of Tarzana - was named by Bill's himself

Dyckia Toothsy - was named by Bill's himself

Dyckia 'Fuente' - Bill Baker Hybrid - Dyckia dawsonii and Dyckia marnier-lapostollei

Dyckia 'Bill Baker' - Bill Baker hyb but named by Chanin

Dyckia Diamond Crown - Bill Baker hyb but named by Chanin

Dyckia Pharaoh - Bill Baker hyb but named by Chanin

What about the plants listed below? Did Bill name them?

Dyckia Big Brazil

Dyckia Bill Paylen

Dyckia Icicle

Dyckia Keswick - unknown

Dyckia Ruby Snow

Dyckia Tarzana

Dyckia Warren

Dyckia Zinfandel

Plus all the un-named hybs. coming out on ebay that is said to be from him.

As of Feb. 5 2013

Just seen this on ebay and is said to be a Bill Baker hybrid or plants he had (?).

Dyckia 'Cleopatra'

Dyckia Tracking code 'CHH'

Dyckia 'Brittle Star' TC clone

Dyckia dawsonii 'Bill Baker's Clone

Dyckia Ruby Snow

Not the best looking plant but it is what it is.

It should look better if I gave it better care.