Welcome new member. The best way to avoid plants with an incorrect name is to know who your buying from and try to investigate the plant and name. There are some very good people here who can ID plants with great deal of accuracy no matter what name tags is on it.
To post pictures start a free Photobucket account or a similar type site. Uplaod your photos there. Then when you make a post here copy the tag from your upload site and paste it in your post.
One of the best places to buy broms is Michael's Bromeliads in Venice Fl. and the tags match the plants

Here is a link that might be useful: click here

Thanks for the tips- I'll try posting the pictures over the weekend. I'll be sure to check out Micheal's- Thanks again.

Your welcome and I forgot to say something. The site shows a few he offers. He has thousands. Download the catalog and if you need pictures let us know. One of us should have the plant

Welcome to GW,twins.
I'm sure you will find it enjoyable,and meet many new friends....and end up buying more plants then you have room for. (it happens!)
Hope you have some spare time to go back over some of the postings from the past months,there's some great information there,and lots of photos to please your eyes.
Keep us 'posted'
Bob

Well, I'm gonna try & post pictures- first timer :)
Bob, you are right- I ended up buying so many that I had to build a small shade house for these babies. I've gotten it under control by keeping only 2-3 and I give the rest away to friends, teachers, and anyone who wants one. Neighbors really like me, they just come in here & take'em. {{gwi:448827}} This came from bromeliadworld- Neo. morado
{{gwi:448830}} Got it from Grant Groves- Neo. Magaly{{gwi:448833}} Grant Groves- Neo. Michi
{{gwi:448835}} Got this one from Grant- Neo. Kahala Dawn
{{gwi:448837}} This one is beautiful, can't quite capture it on camera, but also came from Grant and it's called Cotton Candy- NEW

Hello- just wondering if Blue Max & Blue Tango are the same. They look identical but with diferent names. Blue Tango comes from Bullis, could they have renamed it? Just like the Purple Mulfordi and Malvo? Thanks to anyone who can answer.

Malva is a cultivar of mulfordi as the seed parent

I got these a while ago, but they either had no names or the name it came with doesn't show on the FCBS website. Any answers will be greatly appreciated- Thanks to all, Nicole
1st pic- 26" neo- no tag, 2nd pic- got at local nursery; no label, 3rd pic. got it from Tropiflora, labeled as Devil's Clone, can't find it on FCBS. 4th pic. & 5th (same plant) got it from bromeliad society member who doesn't keep names.{{gwi:448839}}{{gwi:448842}} This one is light mauve- can't see the hue very well since the picture was taken in the evening with flash
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hotdiggetydam, you're right- I meant Marceline & Mulfordi.

marcelino??

Sorry, yes, Marcelino.

Not much info on that one but Im sure its a cultivar/hybrid of Mulfordi...some just dont release info their plants parentage or it could be a natural hybrid and mother nature gets the credit

I have both, Mulfordi & Marcelino- I don't see the difference, the bloom is eaxctly the same- I think Marcelino is just the name given by Bullis when it's really Mulfordi. I just don't get why so many plants are named twice, like Cachardon albo. & ying. I have many plants that are tagged with two names- just wonder if this is a common problem-

I never heard of carcharodon albo. yin is marginated and yang is the variegated form of yin

Make sure you leave a gap between TAG lines, twins, or your pics will run together and stretch out the board.

Your last 2 photos are of Neo. johannis. I don't recognize the others, although the second one is probably some kind of spectabilis hybrid.

As far as things being named twice, there can be many different cultivars of the same species. There may be little differences that you're not seeing, or two people may have named the same clone independently. There's nothing in the registration process that prevents this, just as there is nothing to prevent two or more different hybridizers from crossing the same two plants, or from registering two or more unrelated plants that just happen to look amazingly similar. It happens all the time.