Nice Bob. I also noticed something intriguing when I looked up your plant. Lisa take a look at the link.

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hdd,I think I'd call that Dorthy Berg plant'albomarginated'.I never saw that one before,and did'nt know there was one around. I noticed some others there are variegated,and one had very wide leaves with some redish color toward the base,that does not look like a lingulata except for the bloom.This must be a variable plant that does'nt warrant but a few varieties.[or some of those pics are hybrids,and not true species].If I'd submit my photos,that would really confuse things.I took another photo of this plant at the Bot.Gdn. this afternoon,in full flower now. Bob
Guzmania lingulata var. cardinalis
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No clue.

I've never seen that plant in the link either, in fact I've never seen a Guzmania that looked quite like that! I wouldn't really even call it albo-marginated because in order for an albo-marginated plant to have orange margins the rest of the leaf would have to be reddish, not green. I don't know what you'd call it. It doesn't look like stress-induced pigmentation, and it doesn't resemble the other pics of 'Cardinalis' in the least-- even without the margination the curled leaf is different. Not everything on FCBS is what it says it is, and I don't know enough about Guzmanias to keep all of the lingulata forms straight anyhow. I like it, but I doubt that if you ordered Guz. lingulata 'Cardinalis' that's what you'd get.

The picture of the leaves look like another plant in another genus of broms..you might not recognize what I was getting at as yours, Lisa, was grown on very bright light

Yeah, I see the similarity in coloration to "Neo" Shelldance, hdd. Interesting.

oh good we didnt have to smoke that one LOL