A word about Hechtia's

Label reads Hechtia scariosa but

Hechtia texensis is what it's called now

 

Hechtia Ventura

Hechtia lyman-smithii x Hechtia glomerata

Hechtia macdougallii

Hechtia epigyna

Hechtia rosea

Hechtia rosea flowers



Hechtia Carter macdougallii x guatemalensis



Hechtia podantha

Hechtia lundelliorum or Hechtia tillandsioides

Hechtia glauca

Hechtia KM 90

Hechtia km 85 undiscribed from oaxaca mexico

Hechtia argentea DV clone

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Dyckia 'Brittle Star'
Dyckia 'Brittle Star' F2

Dyckia 'Brittle Star' F3

Dyckia "Whit Memn" F2

This coming weekend (April 16 - 18) is theSarasota Bromeliad Society show and sale.

I'm a member of this society and will be working / helping at the show.

Only showing 4 plants as I don't grow them for show only for me. They are are so hard to clean, as I have a tree that is always droping some thing on them.

xdyckcohnia bones mahogany a monster

xdyckcohnia bones mahogany is a monster of a plant. So far it is more then 3 feet across from leaf tip to leaf tip.

Doen't know how big it will get, it is the biggest of any of my succulent bromeliads. It never had any offsets or pups and only flowered one time a few years back.

Encholirium 'Angelita'.

Encholirium 'Angelita'.

I just got this plant and it has a story that comes with it. Below is from

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Encholirium+'Angelita'.-a0219822486

It's not unusual for some species to circulate in cultivation for some years prior to being officially described from the wild. Some specimens escape botanists' attention entirely because the taxon in question cannot be relocated in habitat. In this situation, registering a cultivar name is desirable in this interim period as a temporary link for identification purposes. Only in exceptional cases such as Neoregelia 'Fireball' does this become a permanent solution.

In the late 1990s. Louisiana grower Terry Couthard raised a seedling batch of an unknown Dyckia from the BSI Seed Bank. One seedling matured enough to flower at an astounding 5 months old, but enquiries failed to positively identify it. This miniature matures at 10cms. diameter and pups easily, with a simple upright spike to 30cms. tall of yellow bell-like flowers . Several years later one learned suggestion was that it was a bigeneric, namely X Dylirium (Dyckia x Encholirium), but then Tropiflora Nursery in Sarasota, Florida announced that it had a uniform batch of self-set seedlings ready for release, which indicated this mystery plant was indeed a species which later proved breeds true to type .

In September, 2003 Terry Couthard registered this Dyckia as D. 'Angelita' until such time as it is botanically described. Brazilian botanist Rafaela Forzza decided two Dyckia species, D. biflorum and D. heloisae were better treated as Encholiriums in her 2001 Doctorate. This meant that all remaining Dyckia species had lateral flowering, a treatment nobody has challenged yet.

However, Dyckia 'Angelita' has terminal blooming spikes, so in March, 2009 (Uncle) Derek Butcher registered this distinctive "cultivar" as Encholirium 'Angelita', but there is a commentary link in the Bromeliad Cultivar Registry to the former name.

Geoff Lawn, BSI Cultivar Registrar

So what ever it is, I like it.

Hechtia argentea

 


I think this one of the best looking hechtia's.

But I haven't seen them all.

Dyckia Chocolate

Kind of slow growing and hard to keep it good looking, but I like the look of it.

Dyckia estevesii

Finely after almost 3 years it's going to product a pup. YEA

Cryptanthus pseudoscaposus

I just picked up this Cryptanthus pseudoscaposus and I have not seen it before. I got it because its weird. Unfortunately I broke the flower stem getting it home. If you look close you can see it flowed on a stem and produced pups on it like a Orthophytum might do. It not a pretty plant but if might be interesting to use in making hybrids.

Dyckia platyphylla

Also very common plant but still one of my favorite with it's short, wide leave with all the wax on them. It to is coming in to flower but not open as yet

Dyckia 'Cherry Coke'

Very common plant but still one of my favorite

Dyckia beateae

I have not cleaned up my plant after this cold winter as yet.
Small flower and fuzzey

This is the frist time this dyckia had flowered for me.

unknown variegated dyckia

Not my plant, but a plant I saw at a local bromeliad nursery.

It was not for sale. I want one, anyone have one for sale?

Hechtia KM 85

I got this hechtia about 8 years ago labeled Hechtia KM 85 at a rare plant auction at a Bromeliad show. It was taken a long time to get this large and produce a pup last summer but I didn't look at it that close until this winter. The pup that came up has few spines, that would be great if it made no spines, It's very white in color that I love.

Fosterella elata

The flowers opened and are small like most fosterella's.

Very tall flower spike 4 feet high. The largest flower spike of any fosterella.

Plant is in a 6 inch pot.

Hechtia 'Carter'

Hechtia 'Carter' (macdougallii x guatemalensis)

This is a plant I saw flowering at Tropiflora. I have a few of these but have not seen it flower, can't wait for that to happen.