Please help to id Bromeliads

[Gecko]

Got these 7 different sp. over the holidays. Can anyone help with id and please advise which is to pot and which to mount. Thank you.



Hoping to display in Vivarium as below:

[Wild Ginger]

From the right to the left:

1. Neorelegia hybrid. ( Most probably N.Fireballx unknown as with most red bromeliads. )
2.will get back to you this one for the scientific name.
3.Neorelegia hybrid ( It should be N. Whites due to the faint horizantal markings on the leaves. )
4-8. Cryptanthus Bivittatus is the general name for these remaining four.

For no 2,4-8, it's best to pot them in a potting mixture of 50% vermiculite 50% potting soil. So that it doesn't get too soggy and improves proper root growth. For colour intensifying, slowly adapt them to full shaded sun.

As for 1 & 3, they're mainly epiphitic, so mount them on a wood with loosely packed spaghnum moss around the roots. Slowly acclimatize them to the full sun and you'll see them in their ful colour splendour. REMEMBER to always have the cup of of the bromeliads with water. AND NEVER use tap water for them, as it'll kill them in the long run. Water moderately.

Have fun and keep us updated !!

Regards,
Phillipe.

[Justikanz]

The Master had spoken...

I would like to know... Where did you get them!!

Particularly like the red-white one...

[Wild Ginger]

I would like to know... Where did you get them!!

Particularly like the red-white one...

Thomas, you can find them at the nurseries at Thomson Road. Or do you want to go to the farms at Sungei Tengah then? lots of bromsssss which you'll LOVE!!

BUY BUY BUY!!!

hehhe
Regards,
Phillipe

[Gecko]

Thanks Phillipe, that really helped!

[jljx]

WHich Farms at Sungei Tengah Phillipe?!

[Simon]

at woonleng?

[Gecko]

More pics I took which inspired me to go into Bromeliads

[valice]

Pineapple also Bromeliads?

[Gecko]

Pineapple also Bromeliads?

Yes, they are.

[floatbloat]

From the right to the left:

1. Neorelegia hybrid. ( Most probably N.Fireballx unknown as with most red bromeliads. )
2.will get back to you this one for the scientific name.
3.Neorelegia hybrid ( It should be N. Whites due to the faint horizantal markings on the leaves. )
4-8. Cryptanthus Bivittatus is the general name for these remaining four.

sorry, but the genus is Neoregelia, not Neorelegia. Neoregelia hybrids are usually complex hybrids and if they aren't tagged, chances of finding out their exact parentage are usually slim. The colouration of Neos isn't a good reference to identifying them because different cultural conditions result in different colours. The most accurate way is to wait for them to flower, or to contact the sellers.

No.2 from right looks suspiciously like xCryptbergia 'red burst'. Cryptanthus bahianus being seed parent and Billbergia nutans being the pollen parent. Again, the only way to confirm is to wait for it to flower.

The Crypthanthus do not belong to the species bivittatus. Those you have look like cultivars. The list is exhaustive, so unless you are a categorical maniac...

I've been growing bromeliads for many years and I've never heard of a bromeliad dying from tap water. It would be true that rain water is better for the plants (as with ALL plants) but really, that's just urban myth.

[Wild Ginger]

Hi Floatboat, do pardon the spelling mistakes for the Neos. And as for the Crypthanthus, they do fall in the category of Bivittatus as it's in the general name and under that they're different cultivars. I do hope you don't confuse the members here. Thanks.

But as you mention, it's true that they all are hybridized. Oh yeah, they DO suffer from frequent tap water watering in the long run. Like they say, there's always a first time for everything.

Regards,
Phillipe.

[floatbloat]

Dear wildginger, you are pardoned for the error.

as for Crypthantus bivittatus (small letter 'B', btw), I'd hate to burst your bubble, but even if bivittatus was a parent, it'd be a part of a complex hybrid. These are clearly cultivars, but they are not all cultivars of bivittatus (if at all), as you have mentioned. I do hope you don't confuse the members here thanks.

it's also interesting to note how you mentioned in your post (as refered to via email) that I quote, "The hybrid between Billbergia and Bahianus is RARE here." has been edited out.

as for the tap water, well this is very subjective. perhaps you have killed some bromeliads by watering them with tap water (though I cannot fathom how this is possible), but I have never. So to each their own.

and you are right- in the cliche 'there is aways a first time for everything.'

cheers and peace out