This is some of the colour I have bred and grown from seed.

With hybrids you never know what you will get, and much of the interest is in the anticipation.

The first four pictures are from four different crosses so the variation in colour is expected, but nothing could prepare me for the variation of colour in the last six plants which are all from the same cross.

This just goes to show that when man starts to dabble with hybridising, anything's possible due to the mixing up of the genes. Most of the time you can see a resemblance of one of the immediate parents in the progeny such as in the plants shown in pictures 5 - 10 which are all from the same grex, however the plant in picture 7 is the "odd man out" and appears very different which indicates possibly some influence of one of the plants somewhere back in a previous generation. I guess only Mother Nature knows the answer.

(1) Neoregelia 'Thunderbird' x 'Lambert's Pride'

(2) Neoregelia 'Sparkling Burgundy' x concentrica

(3) Neoregelia 'Painted Lady' (Sport) x 'Ferny Grove'

(4) Neoregelia 'Painted Lady ' (Sport) x Self

(5) Neoregelia concentrica x 'Bob's Gift'

(6) Neoregelia concentrica x 'Bob's Gift'

(7) Neoregelia concentrica x 'Bob's Gift'

(8) Neoregelia concentrica x 'Bob's Gift'

(9) Neoregelia concentrica x 'Bob's Gift'

(10) Neoregelia concentrica x 'Bob's Gift