Its a bromeliad....please send my ticket to....

Pictures with names are not boring.
Pictures without names are frustrating.
Names without pictures are even more so.
I vote for pictures with names. Always.

Meow!! LOL

Well Lisa....good one, but you know I will have to get even with my own photo!!!

Have one in the making.

Some kind of portea hybrid just opening.

Close enough? :)

I was thinking that maybe is was a bigeneric, maybe a xNeobergia?

Bob says Guzmania besseae .....sort of ?

Is the ticket first class or economy? I'll answer, but I don't want the ticket if it's not first class. Answer= it's pink bracts with yellow flowers. Really that was too easy.

Aechmea....something-or-other? I know I don't own it. Whether I win or not, one of these days I'm coming to get one.

Well what kind of a quiz would it be if I gave the answer, HDD? Did they do that when you were in school? :-p

I knew nobody would get it because nobody has it, I just wanted to see how good you all were at figuring it out from its characteristics. A couple of you are on the right track, namely wulfgar and mike. Of course now that I've given you a clue, all bets are off! I'll still pop for a bus ride from your hotel, though, and I'll even pick you up at the bus stop, how's that? ;-)

OK, I got it!! It's a Guzbergia or a Billmania.
How do I take Greyhound across the Pacific?

Billmea was my first impression.

So do i get half a plane ticket?
Maybe they'll let me ride in the cargo hold.

To be honest the only reason i thought Portea is because it reminded me of your pics of P. 'Ted Teves' from one of your older posts. Except with yellow flowers.

Maybe a quarter of a ticket, wulfgar. You'll have to ride on the wing.

You actually surprised me because I thought the other parent would be much easier to spot, and so far nobody's gotten it. You still haven't given me a species for the Portea half, though. It's not Ted Teves or either of it's parents, so that doesn't leave too many.....

You were off the mark about it just opening too; that's about all it does. I hope you have a good parachute. Just let me know when you'll be passing overhead and I'll send up a flare!

Portea fosteriana?
Portea grandiflora?
Portea kermesina?
Portea leptantha?
Portea silveirae?

:-p

Leaning towards grandiflora

....after spending about 10 seconds looking at pics :)

LOL, you named just about every one except P. petropolitana v. extensa. What's the matter, wulfgar, you got a problem with that one? ;-)

Now, what could you possibly cross with it to make it look like that? It would have to be something in the same subfamily, and it would also have to be something compact enough to pull a big branching inflorescence like P. petropolitana back that far, and those aren't the colors of the Portea either so they had to come from someplace, and I've already said it's a genus that nobody has mentioned yet, so............. ????

Portebergia

I'm still trying to learn names, let alone sub families, but I'll take another stab. Portandsia

x Portphytum :)

Hmmm,not mentioned yet,....small,compact,...something you would have and cross with,....Wild guess ! Cryptanthus !
X Portanthus ??
Bob

ps I Know my First guess was right,because its pictured on the cover of the latest BSI Journal.(Guz,besseae)
But thats ok,I'll 'play the game' ^-^ (and I SO wanted that ticket !!)

You said it wasn't a parent of P. 'Ted Teves' so i left out P. petropolitana v. extensa and P. Alatisipala. Must have misread the old post.

Portea leptantha and Hohenbergia rosea. Wild guess. ;^D

Boy, I can just hear all those brain cells busting. Love it!

Sorry for any confusion, wulfgar. I'll have to check the old post but TT's parents are alatisepala and petropolitana v. noettigii, not v. extensa. I'm not even sure why v. noettigii is considered a petropolitana, it looks so different from the others.

Anyway, we've established Portea petropolitana v. extensa as one parent, but we're still searching for daddy.

For those of you who don't know the subfamilies, here's a partial list of genera in the subfamily Bromelioides: Acanthostachys, Aechmea, Ananas, Androlepis, Araeococcus, Billbergia, Bromelia, Canistropsis, Canistrum, Cryptanthus, Edmundoa, Hohenbergia, Lymania, Neoglaziovia, Neoregelia, Nidularium, Orthophytum, Portea, Pseudananas, Quesnelia, Ronnbergia, Ursulaea, Wittrockia.

I left off some of the more obscure ones, but the one you want is on that list. Let's see, so far I've heard Aechmea, Billbergia, Cryptanthus, Hohenbergia, Neoregelia and Orthophytum mentioned. It's none of those, and it's bigeneric, so it's not another Portea.

The coloration should be a big clue. Think yellow flowers and red bracts.......

Acanthostachys strobilacea? This is kinda fun.

Canistrum seidelianum? One of many suspects...

Kim's getting warmer......

Canistrum triangulare? I am getting warmer, it's like 90F here today!

Canistrum aurantiacum

LOL, HDD waits until we're almost there and then swoops in for the kill! ;-)

Yup, it's a Portea petropolitana v. extensa x Can. aurantiacum, in other words, a xPorteistrum! Or maybe a xCantea, I'm not sure.

(Sigh) Ok, now can we get a photo of the whole plant? How long did it take to bloom? This is a Lisa original?

Here's another bigeneric using Can, aurantiacum. The mommy in this case is Aechmea blanchetiana.

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You can see that the Canistrum is very dominant, as is usually the case when you cross something open and branching with something compact. The compact parent tends to pull the other one way back.

Kim, the problem with my place is that it's pure chaos! The weeds and vines have the upper hand, as you can see in that second picture, so the rest of the plant is probably under there someplace.

It's not anything that great, I was just experimenting with bigenerics, and it's such a weird cross I thought I'd see if anybody could guess what it was. If somebody had put it up for ID I would have said it was an Aechmea. ;-)

Ahem!... um...Lisa, are we forgetting its Guz. besseae ?
Bob ^-^
FYI, My ticket to Hawaii is available at 'Cheapflights.com'
Irrefutable Proof attached below.
;^))

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Hororable mention goes to HDD,for coming in 2nd.

D'OH!!!

You're right, Bob, it IS Guzmania besseae! Who knew that when you crossed a Portea with a Canistrum you got a Guzmania?

Sorry, my bad. I'm afraid I'm all out of plane tickets at the moment but I might be willing to go halfsies on an inflatable raft....

I'll get back to ya on that Lisa, kinda busy this week.
And I feel better that you finally acknowledged my correct ID. :)
And for all you doubters out there, yes, when you cross a Portia with a Canistrum,you DO get a Guzmania.
[most everyone knows that]
Sorry this one is over,lots of fun...how about another Lisa ?
Bob ^_^

I'm a little concerned that HDD did NOT provide a picture with the name.