This list is geared to the non-professional.
If you would like the professional name of any plant,
look on the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Official Nomenclature Listing to be found at
http://www.selby.org/RESEARCH/BIC/BINO98.htm.

I'm sorry, that link has been deactivated.
An updated version is available in printed form from the Marie Selby Gardens and from the Bromeliad Society International.

The previous edition is available at: http://charlies-web.com/Binomial_BSI_2002.pdf
In the meantime I will give the best name as far as I know it!


Plants - A through P
An Index to Pictures


The blooming plants are listed alphabetically. The following is a list of the plants.

When you see a plant you want to view, click on the letter heading the list.

Please, all pictures are copyrighted.


I have been asked to list the New Photos somewhere.

So, I'll try doing that here.

Dates are the date the photograph was placed on the page.


2007.0617       Dyckia platyphylla
2007.0904       Puya mirabilis     Schilling   2007.0904


A
Acanthostachys pitcairnioides
Acanthostachys pitcairnioides seed pods
Acanthostachys strobilacea

A
Aechmea aquilega
Aechmea aquilega     Colmenares 2006.0406
Aechmea aquilega forma alba     Colmenares 2006.0407
Aechmea bambusoides
Aechmea bracteata (Dills/Leinbach)
Aechmea bracteata Colmenares     2006.0412
Aechmea brevicollis

A
Aechmea beeriana    Colmenares    2006.0506
Aechmea bromeliifolia
Aechmea bromeliifolia
Aechmea bromeliifolia 2002.0621
Aechmea bromeliifolia 2005.0525

A
Aechmea capixabae
Aechmea castelnavii     (Hernan Colmenares Eekhout)     2006.0102
Aechmea caudata

A
Aechmea caudata var. eipperi
Aechmea chantinii(Leinbach)
Aechmea chantinii v. fuchsii (Colmenares) 2006.0207
Aechmea chantinii v. fuchsii (Colmenares) 2006.0407
Aechmea comata

A
Aechmea cylindrata
Aechmea dichlamydes v. dichlamydea
Aechmea dichlamydea

A
Aechmea drakeana (Flower)
Aechmea distichantha var. distichantha
Aechmea distichantha var. distichantha
Aechmea distichantha var. glaziovii

A
Aechmea eurycorymbus
Aechmea farinosa v conglomerata
Aechmea fasciata
Aechmea fendleri
Aechmea fendleri 2002.1012

A
Aechmea flavo-rosea
Aechmea fraseri , (Gollogly)
Aechmea fraseri 2002.0625
Aechmea fulgens v fulgens 2005.0926

A
Aechmea gamosepala (Buckup)
Aechmea gamosepala a variation? (Buckup)
Aechmea gamosepala cv. "Adolph's White" 2002.1115

A
Aechmea fulgens v fulgens
Aechmea gamosepala
Odd Aechmea gamosepala
Aechmea gamosepala cv. "Adolph's White"
Aechmea gamosepala, species and two cultivars.

A
Aechmea guaraparensis
Aechmea haltonii
Aechmea hoppii 2002.1012
Aechmea kerteziae 2005.0410
Aechmea kleinii

A
Aechmea lindenii v. lindenii
Aechmea lueddemanniana 2005.0922
Aechmea manzanresiana
Aechmea mexicana
Aechmea mexicana    Colemenares    2006.0504
Aechmea mexicana    Colemenares    2006.0504

A
Aechmea mollis
Aechmea nidularioides (taken at Bird Rock Tropicals)

A
Aechmea organensis 2002.002
Aechmea organensis 2005.0508
Aechmea orlandiana 2005.0922
Aechmea ornata v. nationalis
Aechmea phanerophlebia (Wingert)
Aechmea phanerophlebia
(Till)

A
Aechmea pedicellata
Aechmea pineliana

A
Aechmea pubescens
Aechmea racinae
Aechmea racinae

A
Aechmea ramosa
Aechmea recurvata v. benrathii
Aechmea recurvata v. benrathii
Aechmea recurvata v. benrathii     2006.1125
Aechmea recurvata v. recurvata
Aechmea roeseliae pups 2006.0205
Aechmea spectabilis 2006.0122 Colmanares

A
Aechmea tillandsioides 2005.0526
Aechmea triangularis
Aechmea triticina
Aechmea triticina

A
Aechmea turbinocalyx (Bee)
Aechmea victoriana

A
Aechmea weilbachii v. weilbachii
Aechmea a hybrid (?)

Aechmea winkleri

A
Alcantarea duarteana
Alcantarea geniculata 2005.0310

Alcantarea imperialis (Till)

A
Ananas bracteatus    Colmenares    2006.0520
Ananas fritzmuelleri (Bee)
Ananas lucidus    2005.0802
Ananas lucidus    Colmenares    2006.0507
Ananas lucidus    Colmenares    2006.0507
Ananas nanus    Colmenares    2006.0508
Ananas nanus    Colmenares    2006.0508
Androlepis skinneri

B
Billbergia amoena v. viridis
Billbergia buchholtzii
Billbergia brasiliensis
Billbergia buchholtzii

B
Billbergia horrida v. horrida (Till)
Billbergia horrida v. tigrina
Billbergia lietzei
Billbergia leptopoda
Billbergia manarae

B
Billbergia nutans
Billbergia pyramidalis v concolor
Billbergia pyramidalis v concolor Julianne Jarvis 2006.0301
Billbergia sanderiana

B
Billbergia vittata (Till)
Billbergia zebrina
Billbergia sp.
Brocchinia tatei (Vandervort)
Bromelia balansae Temmerman
Bromelia balansae

C
Canistropsis burchellii    2005.0619
Canistrum seidelianum (Cohen)
Catopsis berteroniana (Rhine)
Catopsis morreniana (Rhine)

C
Catopsis sessiliflora
Catopsis sp. coll. in Panama by Dennis Heckart

C
Catopsis sp.
Catopsis sp. (taken at Bird Rock Tropicals)
Catopsis sp. 2001.0901

C
Cryptanthus bahianus
Cryptanthus fosterianus
Cryptanthus warren-loosei

D
Deinocanthon urbanianum
Deuterocohnia brevifolia
Deuterocohnia brevifolia

D
Deuterocohnia longipetala
Deuterocohnia longipetala
Deuterocohnia longipetala
Deuterocohnia longipetala 2005.0525

D
Deuterocohnia lorentziana
Deuterocohnia schreiteri

D
Dyckia choristaminea
Dyckia rariflora
Dyckia rariflora
Dyckia rariflora 2006.0825
Dyckia ursina (Till)
Dyckia platyphylla 2007.0617 (4 pictures)

E
Edmundoa lindenii v. rosea
four pictures

E
Encholirium magalhaesii
eight pictures

F
Fascicularia bicolor (Dills)
Fascicularia bicolor (©Dunlop)
Fascicularia bicolor (©Dunlop)

F
Fascicularia pitcairniifolia (© Dunlop)
Fascicularia pitcairniifolia (© Dunlop)
Fascicularia pitcairniifolia (Dills 2001.1207)

F
Fosterella micrantha
Fosterella micrantha flower
Fosterella penduliflora

F
Fosterella petiolata
Fosterella rusbyi

F
Fosterella schidosperma
Fosterella spectabilis Ken Marks

F
Fosterella petiolata
Fosterella rusbyi

F
Fosterella spectabilis
Fosterella villosula
Fosterella weddelliana

G
Glomeropitcairnia penduliflora (Till)
Glomeropitcairnia penduliflora (Till)

G
Guzmania alborosea(Ken Marks)
Guzmania butcheri (Michael Pascall)
Guzmania decora (taken at Bird Rock Tropicals)

G
Guzmania monostachia
Guzmania musaica
Guzmania plicatifolia

G
Guzmania plumieri (Till)
Guzmania remyi (Saul)
Guzmania sanguinea

G
Guzmania wittmackii
Guzmania wittmackii (Kowalski)

H
Hechtia caerulea
Hechtia caerulea (?)    2006.0519
Hechtia epigyna
Hechtia glomerata

H
Hechtia marnier-lapostollei
Hohenbergia correia-araujoi (Till)
Hohenbergia correia-araujoi    2007.0622

H
Hohenbergia stellata
Hohenbergia stellata
Bee
Hohenbergiopsis guatemalensis

H
Hohenbergia stellata four pictures
Hohenbergia stellata 'Maria Valentina' four pictures

N
Neoregelia sp? 2004.0703
Neoregelia ampullacea
Neoregelia carolinae
Neoregelia coimbrae
Neoregeliacruenta

N
Neoregelia ampullacea
Neoregelia "Fireball"
Neoregelia fluminensis
Neoregelia lilliputiana (Ogilvie)
Neoregelia sapiatibensis (a Colgan slide)
Neoregelia species

N
Neoregelia tigrina
Nidularium angustifolium
Nidularium innocentii v. innocentii 2005.0713

Nidularium procerum var. kermesianum
Nidularium regelioides
Nidularium regelioides 2004.0703

O
Ochagavia carnea (?)
Orthophytum alvimii
Orthophytum burle-marxii (Dutch)

O
Orthophytum glabrum
Orthophytum gurkenii (Saul)
Orthophytum saxicola

P
Pitcairnia amblyosperma
Pitcairnia darblayana
Pitcairnia flammea
Pitcairnia fuertesii (Bee)
Pitcairnia integrifolia
Pitcairnia micotrinensis (Till)

P
Pitcairnia rubrinigriflora(Schilling) 2005.0320
Pitcairnia rubiginosa (Petitbon)
Pitcairnia sodiroi (Kew)
Pitcairnia spicata (Kew)

P
Portea alatisepala (Bee)
Portea fosteriana (Bee)
Portea grandiflora (Bee)
Portea platysepala (Bee)
Portea petropolitana v extensa 2004.0729

P
Pseudananas sagenarius (Bee/Kew)
Puya butcheriana

P
Puya alpestris in Botanical Garden ca 2005
Puya alpestris in habitat, Saul
Puya alpestris from the Bells in New Zealand
Puya alpestris in my front yard! 2009.0411
Puya alpestris in my front yard! 2009.0421
Puya alpestris in my front yard! flash, at night 2009.0421

P
Puya berteroniana four pictures
Puya berteroniana A photo taken at Huntington Gardens
Puya chilensis Photo by PeterTristram, Australia
Puya chilensis A photo from the Bells in New Zealand

P
Puya laxa 2003.08
Puya laxa 2006.0904
Puya mirabilis
Puya mirabilis 2004.0722
Puya mirabilis 2004.0811
Puya mirabilis Schilling     2007.0904

P
Puya prosanae
Puya spathacea
Puyawerdermanii
Puya species
Puya species


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