Bromeliaceae VOLUME XLII - No. 4 - JUL/AUG 2008 The Bromeliad Society of Queensland Inc. P. O. Box 565, Fortitude Valley Queensland, Australia 4006, Home Page www.bromsqueensland.com OFFICERS PRESIDENT Olive Trevor (07) 3351 1203 VICE PRESIDENT Anne McBurnie PAST PRESIDENT Bob Reilly (07) 3870 8029 SECRETARY Chris Coulthard TREASURER Glenn Bernoth (07) 4661 3 634 BROMELIACEAE EDITOR Ross Stenhouse SHOW ORGANISER Bob Cross COMMITTEE Greg Aizlewood, Bruce Dunstan, Barry Kable, Arnold James,Viv Duncan, David Rees MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Roy Pugh (07) 3263 5057 SEED BANK CO-ORDINATOR Doug Parkinson (07) 5497 5220 AUDITOR Anna Harris Accounting Services SALES AREA CASHIER Norma Poole FIELD DAY CO-ORDINATOR Ruth Kimber & Bev Mulcahy LIBRARIAN Evelyn Rees ASSISTANT SHOW ORGANISER Phil Beard SUPPER STEWARDS Nev Ryan, Barry Genn PLANT SALES Pat Barlow Phil James COMPETITION STEWARDS Dorothy Cutcliffe, Arnold James CHIEF COMPETITION STEWARD HOSTESS Gwen Parkinson BSQ WEBMASTER Ross Stenhouse LIFE MEMBERS Grace Goode OAM Peter Paroz, Michael ORDea Editors Email Address: [email protected] The Bromeliad Society of Queensland Inc. gives permission to all Bromeliad Societies to re- print articles in their journals provided proper acknowledgement is given to the original author and the Bromeliaceae, and no contrary direction is published in Bromeliaceae. This permission does not apply to any other person or organisation without the prior permission of the author. Opinions expressed in this publication are those of the individual contributor and may not neces- sarily re\ect the opinions of the Bromeliad Society of Queensland or of the Editor Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the information in their articles. Front Cover: Guzmania lingulata QPurpleR Photo by Ross Stenhouse Rear Cover : Guzmania QAmethystRR Photo by Ross Stenhouse Bromeliaceae 2 Jul/Aug 2008 Contents TILLANDSIA CROCATA QRUTSCHMANN RS O RANGE R .....................................................................5 THE BSQ WEB S ITE ..............................................................................................................5 XNEOBERGIOPSIS QP INEGROVE R OR N EOREGELIA QP INEGROVE P UZZLE R ...................................7 NEOREGELIA PINELIANA (L EMAIRE ) L.B. SMITH ....................................................................8 A NEW N OTHOGENUS - XNEOBERGIOPSIS ............................................................................8 QUESTION AND A NSWER ..........................................................................................................9 WINTER C ARE OF B ROMELIADS ............................................................................................11 A Q UESTION F ROM A M EMBER .............................................................................................13 GUZMANIA QG ISELA R ETC ...................................................................................................13 OP ERMANENT P BLACK M ARKER P ENS ..................................................................................15 THE N IGHT F LOWERING ALCANTAREA EDMUNDOI .................................................................15 BROMELIAD E XPOSE : ORTHOPHYTUMS .................................................................................17 BROMELIADS IN THE L ANDSCAPE ...........................................................................................21 CONSIDER G ROWING V RIESEAS .............................................................................................23 NEOREGELIA QP HYLLIS R AND NEOREGELIA QRED G OLD R ..........................................................26 GROWING WHITE V ARIEGATES FROM S EED. ..........................................................................30 PLEVER RS P ILLS ....................................................................................................................40 THE B ROMELIAD WORLD : DIVERSITY AND T OLERANCE OF M ANY T ASTES ............................41 CAIRNS WORLD C ONFERENCE - 26TH TO 29TH J UNE 2008 ...................................................44 I ONCE HAD A P ROBLEM ........................................................................................................45 CALENDAR OF E VENTS ..........................................................................................................46 PLANT OF THE M ONTH P ROGRAMME FOR 2008 .....................................................................47 COMPETITION S CHEDULE FOR 2008 ......................................................................................47 Important things to remember to do: Sunday, 14th September Bromeliad Field Day at home of Barry and Ann Kable, 281 Redland Bay Rd, Capalaba. B 11th October Stockade Nursery Open Day - 9-12 AM 70 Wades Road, Bellmere, Qld. See add in Bromeliaceae for details Books For Sale The Society has the following books for sale: # Starting with Bromeliads $18 # Pitcher Plants of the Americas $60 # Bromeliads: A Cultural Manual $5 # Back Copies of Bromeliaceae (2005, 2006 Editions) $4 # Bromeliads for the Contemporary Garden by Andrew Steens $36 # Bromeliads: Next Generation by Shane Zaghini $33 Postage and package extra. Unfortunately we cannot supply overseas orders. Please phone the Librarian, Mrs Evelyn Rees (07) 3355 0432 to order books. Bromeliaceae 3 Jul/Aug 2008 Tillandsia Q Mock Orange R - Two Forms Tillandsia QRutschmannRs OrangeR Bromeliaceae 4 Jul/Aug 2008 nor the typical dark brown petals. In fact they Tillandsia crocata have T. crocata type leaf sheaths and almost orange petals. It would appear that some QRutschmannRs foreign pollen has crept into the seed raising OrangeR project. Because of their hybrid origin they by Derek Butcher 3/2008. should be called QMock OrangeR. The prob- lem with identi[cation will be the fact that T. When Werner Rauh described T. croca- caliginosa also has long leaves which remind ta var tristis in Trop. Subtrop. P\anz 43: 17. me of a live \oppy mousetail compared to a 1983 he mentioned how variable T. crocata dead stiff mousetail of T. myosura . We must was. At that time T. crocata was considered remember here, that T. myosura was a Qcon- to be widespread in Brazil, through Argentina fusedR species for over 50 years until Walter to Bolivia He referred to a very large form Till created T. caliginosa in 1984 collected by Dr J Rutschmann of Basel, Swit- So if you do have a T. caliginosa act- zerland in the grounds of a hotel in Brazil, ing oddly, think of QMock OrangeR. More and which had a 6-7 \owered in\orescence investigation needs to be made because at and fragrant, dark orange \owers. the moment the Germans are very reticent A year later Walter Till created T. ca- to disclose details. liginosa in Pl. Syst. Evol. 147: 282. 1984 and Ed. Images opposite used to illustrate treated T. crocata var tristis as a synonym. T. this article: Top by P. Tristram, Bottom by caliginosa coming from Northern Argentina D. Butcher and Southern Bolivia. The orange \owered T. crocata con- tinued to offset and be grown by European The BSQ Web Site specialists. In fact in 1996 it made its way DonRt forget that the society has a web to Australia as T. crocata QOrangeR where it site. We place urgent and general information would not offset fast enough to satisfy the and information on the site.The URL is: demand. In dry Adelaide, Australia, QnormalR www.bromsqueensland.com T. crocata have leaves 7cm long but leaves for QOrangeR are 13cm long. Nobody has succeeded in growing self set seed from this plant to prove it is a form of T. crocata and not a hybrid. However, it was collected in Brazil far from the habitat of T. caliginosa so this cannot be considered to be a parent Stockade Nursery Open Day and we are talking about a putative natural 11th October 9-12 AM hybrid. Because of a man-made hybrid M see 70 Wades Road, Bellmere, Qld. below, this clone needs a more speci[c name like QRutschmannRs OrangeR AustraliaRs largest range of Alcantarea spe- In 2004 Doetterer in Germany, was cies and forms over 20 available. selling T. caliginosa , having obtained his Giant Neoregelias and Tank Tillandsias. stock from Holm. What is interesting is that a low proportion of these plants do not have the EFTPOS and Credit card facilities avail- typical glabrous leaf sheath of T. caliginosa able. Bromeliaceae 5 Jul/Aug 2008 Neo. Q Pinegrove R xNeobergiopsis Q Pinegrove R Catlan 19050 Neo. Q Pinegrove R Catlan 19050 PitcairniaNidularium andreana procerum xNeobergiopsis Q Pinegrove R Bromeliaceae 6 Jul/Aug 2008 way my plant is basically green, 50 cm wide, xNeobergiopsis but I have seen it coloured up and it was quite stunning. A burnished tone from memory. QPinegroveR or If you have any information please let Neoregelia QPinegrove me know. All Townsville and Brisbane plants like mine, that I know of, originated, using PuzzleR the limited data that I have, from a private Author: Rob Smythe collector just north of Brisbane. Derek Butcher has supplied me with an It is not often that I choose to write article connecting xNeobergiopsis with Pine about a plant with a wrong name tag other- Grove Nursery. Seedlings were sent to The wise I might write about little else. This one Olive Branch Nursery. Technically speaking is interesting and obviously is a wide spread this is an unlikely connection as the plants error. It would appear that this plant is found reputedly were a cross of a Neoregelia onto in collections in Brisbane and Townsville for a Hohenbergiopsis so a sel[ng of the Neo. sure and probably