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Patris

hmmmmm............I see a picture

Well, I saw a photo too...but here's another of this plant including the inflorescence from fcbs.Its a cultivar of Ae. mulfordii

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It came through now. Wonder why it did not show up the first time?? cyber-meanies!

Beautiful plants and really like the light banding as they age. Love the pelican!

I am discovering I have a hard time with pups, they all look the same! Hard to identify till they get older.
Patris

Thanks Patris. He is my creation, well I painted him, didnt pour the concrete into the mold.

Hi all,...here is a photo of the parent,Ae.mulfordii,taken recently at the Botanical Gdns. Nice looking plant,but a little short on the inflorescence,compared to other similar aechmeas...Bob
Lower plants are Bill. amoena rubra

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I think what you've got there is some form of Bill. amoena viridis, Bob. What I know as amoena rubra is a solid red stoloniferous plant. Oddly enough, there's no picture of it on FCBS, but I got mine from Don Beadle, so that's good enough for me!

Lisa,I'm agreeing with you on the amoena viridis name. I was thinking of that when I posted it. I was doing that from memory,[what memory?]and now that you bring it up,it did ring a bell. The problem we are having at the Bot.Gdns.,are the kids from the school tours switching tags around,or just removing them. I'm supposed to get them straightened out,but sometimes the mind gets boggled,especially on the look-alike plants. One of these days I'm going to take some pics of look-alike aechmeas,the big guys.Like 'Carioca' ; 'Jubilee'; eurycorymbus; blanchetiana ; aquilega ; mulfordii ; rubens ;callichroma. Unless they are in bloom,its difficult to tag them right. I've been going by the pics in Baensch's 'blooming bromeliads',as not all are on fcbs. And thanks for the correct Bil.name. Bob

Aarrgh on the kids switching the tags!!!! We have a part-time helper who has been working on cleaning up my shadehouse, who keeps regrouping things and picking up loose tags off the ground and sticking them into any old thing, and it's driving me nuts! I try not to say too much because she is trying to help and gets very defensive about it, and lord knows I haven't had the energy to clean up the mess in there myself, but still.........

As far as the look-alike Aechmeas, have you read what Uncle Derek has to say about all that? You're opening a real can of worms there! Oddly enough, he doesn't include blanchetiana in his discussion, which is surprising because it's definitely a part of that whole complex and hybridizes easily with all of the others. I've got a whole field of half-way-in-between seedling plants to prove it, and the bees are responsible, not me!

Derek seems to think that almost everything being grown under all those other names is really Ae. callichroma. I suppose he has good reasons for saying that, but it doesn't make me very happy. I see too many variations for them all to be one species. Check it out, though:

Here is a link that might be useful: Uncle Derek says: Gravisia complex

I think Malva is probally grown for the foliage. Inless than a month my largest pup has intensified in color 50% and with the plants size is a nice addition to any collection