Now if you could just get that blue all over the leaf.....

It is beautiful. Excuse my ignorance, but could you tell me what it is please.

Yowzers, cool color hd!

Oh wow, is that one you did yourself?????
What is it? I need one!

Sander

it's a Goth brom look at the Black Fingernails! That is cool!

I have seen a similar brom to that with amazing blue/black. It was a variety of Aechmea caudata. What's yours HDD?

Its a Caudata that was collected last year ....and now its making a pup

Looks like Ae. caudata 'Blotches' (AKA caudata 'Freckles').

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Ae. Bluetooth, a cross of caudata 'Blotches' and recurvata v. benrathii.

This one grows like a Neo...I will get a photo tomorrow

Really nice HDD, how big ?

Chanin the plants are growing about 12-14 inches wide and 6-7 inches tall
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That does look like a Neo

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Droooooooooooooool what is it?

Sander

My new plant about to bloom and be registered :)

Gorgeous!! Those leafs aren't just broad, they are nearly square. :-)

Very nice, one of your own hybids??
If it is, you've cracked it.

Looks like you really bake that one, over here it would probably just be green.

It looks a bit similar to something I have, not fully grown yet, so to early to see what it will be when adult.
That one is supposed to be from 'Costa Rican' seed...
This was last summer, it has grown quite a bit since.
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I could be miles off though.

Sander

Excellent Neo hybrid HDD...and you've managed to get the central rosetting effect of 'Passion' & 'Blushing Bride'...very nice! I think I know what one of the parents are...but can you tell us what you've decided to name it, and give us the full pedigree.

Congratulations HDD - a very beautiful hybrid!
And Lisa, I love Ae. 'Bluetooth'! One of yours?

A better photo coming...that was taken in the wee hours of dawn...kinda misleading
I will let more of the cat out of the bag when it blooms.
Who do you think its parents are? Devo? Sander?
I posted the photo for Bambi_too because of the big lily (even if it wasnt a daylily)in the photo LOL

There might be some Takemura grande in there and some concentrica maybe...

Sander

I was admiring both the plants. I wish I could grow Hips and Amaryllis outdoors here. The future intro is nice!

Royal Hawaiian for the form, size & red tips...but that centre colour...and the way it is rosetting up...makes me think that a Grant Groves hybrid is in the mix. It must be close to flowering HDD, do you have plans to use it to create 2nd generation hybrids...?

Beautiful, HDD! Something like Royal Cordovan x Pink Sensation? Or is Mister Odaen also lurking in there somwhere? What is happening there with the crown of the plant? I am sure the inflorescence has started forming allready. Some of my plants do exactly that - like Puppy Love at the moment - and I curse them for doing that because then the flower is all squashed up and you can't properly work with that and when the seeds are getting ripe, you cannot get it out unless you destroy those inner (almost quilling) leaves. That is not really rosetting? Like what King's Ransom, Medallion and sometimes Debbie do?

But all this aside, the colours on your plant look absolutely amazing!

hdd, Great colors! That's a really beautiful hybrid, and well worth registering! I'm pretty much in agreement with Japie on the guess of parents. I was thinking 'Royal Cordovan' and one of Grant's hybrids.
Paul

Well, that makes 3 of us. I was thinking Royal Cordovan too, but crossed with something with a bit more purple in it, like maybe Donna?