Gonzer...,re;Lost tag..Looks like 'Painted Delight',(see Neo. pic's at #1297 on FCBS site). Also ,here's a photo of my P.D.,it's the one to the left of center. The large Neo in the center is 'Rose Blush'. Could yours be a P.D. also?.There seems to be some variety in them. Bob
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Thanks Bob! My memory tells me you're correct. There really is a lot of diversity among the PD hybrids. 'Amazing Grace' seems to have many forms also. Jeez, for that matter, it seems Neo hybrids have more forms than one can keep up with.

Really???? Hmmm..... doesn't look anything like 'Painted Delight' to me. I was going to guess 'Avalon', but it's just a guess.

What I'm seeing is that phenomenon we talked about before, what I call "temperature banding". During cooler weather the growing portion of the leaf will come out green, and when it warms up again it will regain its red/marmorated coloration, but there will still be bands of green/unmarmorated leaf. As far as I know it only affects marmorated plants-- i.e. those in the red-with-green-spots group, usually hybrids of Neo. marmorata or chlorosticta or one of those types-- and some seem a lot more prone to it than others.

I'm not seeing any big spots there, which is why I think it may be 'Avalon' or something similar with tiny spots. Now if you tell me there's no spots at all, I'm going to have to go back and rethink my entire theory...... ;-)

L&G, Interesting! So many possibilities. If I'm seeing right,the pup on the right of the mother plant has the opposite color scheme of mom,purple cup,outer green leaves.This is like my plant photo.Whereas,mom has green cup leaves and purple outer leaves. The photos on FCBS taken by Moyna Prince and Tropiflora,look similar to G's plant and mine,but the three other photos there are different,having the spots and bands Lisa speaks of..If all are truly PD's,there is a lot of room for differences in this cultivar. In checking the FBCS on 'Avalon',I don't see the likeness to G's plant.I'm not a Neo man,so will go with the advice of those who know them well. Anyway,its all kinda interesting,yes ? Bob
Epilogue : L, If it one day turns out that I have the right ID...(a long shot for sure!)
you can 'make up' to me by sending me your Perfect Neo 'Kawika' ;-)

Well Bob, the way I look at it the one on the right is not really the opposite color scheme as the other, it's just that the one on the left started to initiate a bloom and therefore stopped growing while the leaves were still in the green phase, whereas the one on the right kept growing so the new growth went back to the normal dark red coloration.

I looked at the FCBS pics of 'Avalon' and I see what you mean about the bottom 2 anyway-- the color's really off. The top one looks about right, but with all of the thousands of Neo. cultivars out there, I'm sure not going to swear that's what it is.

To me the pics of 'Painted Delight' don't look like different varieties so much as just grown under different conditions. The lower ones look more shade grown, but they all have the dark purple markings stretching down the length of the leaf as if someone had painted them on with a brush, not a concentric color break like the one in gonzer's picture. As far as I know there's only one clone of it, although to further confuse matters, I believe the correct name is actually supposed to be 'Painter's Delight'-- apparently it just got called the by the other name so often (probably because of some similarities of the markings to 'Painted Lady') that it stuck.

Of course there's always a hazard using one or two pictures as a definitive guide in making an ID because your plant may be grown under different conditions and look completely different. In addition the FCBS just posts pictures with the names that the senders give them, correct or not. There does seem to be some amount of review and revision going on when it comes to species, but hybrids are another story-- who can prove what it is? Still, it's a whole lot better than a verbal description!

Lisa,Thanks for the eye-opening detailed explanation.Now I see what you mean,especially the 'color break' vs the 'painted-on' look. No doubt mine is a 'painted delight'but gonzer's plant is still a question mark.(tho it may have been acquired as a PD,when it had a name tag,be it right or wrong).I also found another photo of 'Painter Delight'in Ron Parkhurst's book(pg.78),'The Book of Bromeliads & Hawaiian Tropical Flowers'As you pointed out,it is called 'Painter',not 'Painted'. So I've learned a lesson. I suppose that means I don't get your Neo 'Kawiki'? (sigh) Bob

Hee hee hee..... I just spoke with Kawika and he wants to stay here with me! ;-)

BTW, "Kawika" is Hawaiian for "David". Oh yeah, just call me Trivia Queen!