Billbergia tessmannii DYCKIA Very fuzzy and silvery with

Very fuzzy and silvery with trichomes and it blushes reddish at anthesis

is being stripped from the forests surrounding its native Rio de Janeiro

A handsome hybrid by Chester Skotak that looks more reminiscent of the fasciata parent

Brazil in 1948 and was described by Lyman Smith

wickedly spiny species from Southeastern Brazil to Uruguay

Billbergia tessmannii DYCKIA Very fuzzy and silvery withThis is a dramatic, large growing species from the Amazon region of Peru, Loreto province in the vicinity of Iquitos. Tall, flaring tubes of silvery green with bold silver banding. The leaves are fairly stiff and long and taper to a thin point. Marginal spines are moderate. As a helicoid species, the inflorescence is spectacular; pendant to well below the base of the plant, bold pink bracts, pinkish ovaries and clock spring petals that are gray on the