Bromeliad Information

Glossary Culture Pests and Diseases Hybridizing Nomenclature Bromeliad People Believe It Or Not! Bromeliad Art Misc.

Culture

General Culture Information

• CULTURAL HINTS FOR BROMELIAD GROWERS - Carol Johnson, December 1995 FCBS Newsletter

• COLD SENSITIVITY OF BROMELIADS - Dr. Dale W. Jenkins, Sarasota Bromeliad Society Newsletter, December, 1998

• COLD SENSITIVITY OF SOME BROMELIADS - Tom Wolfe and Eileen Kahl, February 2007 FCBS Newsletter

• AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO MOUNTING TILLANDSIAS - Margaret and Derek Butcher

• AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION - Margaret and Derek Butcher

• TRUE FULL-SUN BROMELIADS - Moyna Prince

• HOW DO I GROW IT AND WHAT IS IT? - Try our Bromeliad Key for Dummies by Derek Butcher and Dean Fairchild

Regional Culture Information
(Bromeliads around the World)

• NOT FOR FLORIDA - What not to grow in Florida, Carol Johnson, August 1998 FCBS newsletter

• ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA - Great culture information from the Bromeliad Society of South Australia

• FIJI - BROMELIADS WITH WEBBED FEET, By: Dick Phillips

• ENGLAND - HOW I GROW BROMELIADS IN ENGLAND, By: Peter Temple

• NEW ZEALAND - BROMELIADS - THEN AND NOW, By: Bea Hanson

• SINGAPORE - BROMELIADS AT SINGAPORE BOTANICAL GARDENS, By: Derek Butcher

Growing from Seed

• THE KITCHEN METHOD OF SEED RAISING - Chef Derek

• DIFFERENT WAYS TO GROW TILLANDSIAS FROM SEED - Andrew Flower

• GROWING TILLANDSIA SEED USING ARTIFICIAL MEDIA AND STERILE TECHNIQUES - Dr. Gordon Slack

• GROWING ATMOSPHERIC TILLANDSIAS FROM SEED - Mark A. Dimmitt, BSI Journal #1, 1990

Pests and Diseases

• INSECTS AND ALLIES ASSOCIATED WITH BROMELIADS - J.H. Frank and L.P. Lounibos
• INSECT AND RELATED PESTS OF BROMELIADS - a slide show by Dr. Barbra Larson
• BROMELIADS and MOSQUITOS - Rob Smythe
• MORE ON MOSQUITOS - Derek Butcher, based on research by John Catlan
• CANOLA WHITE OIL - "Oils aint Oils Soll!" - Rob Smythe
  this was presented at the Cairns Bromeliads X conference and is about the use of canola oil for eradication of flyspeck scale and any scale for that matter

• Up Close and Personal With the Evil Weevil - One Man's Encounters with Metamasius callizona
  A photo essay by Olan Ray Creel
• SCALE INSECTS THAT EAT BROMELIADS - A link to pages by Dr. Howard Frank and others.
  Here you will find An Introduction to scale insects, a page on Armored Scale Insects as Pests of Bromeliads and a page on Non-Armored Scale Insects on Bromeliads, both with illustrations as well as a page on Management of these Scale Insects.

Hybridizing

• POLLINATION AND HYBRIDIZATION - Mulford Foster, August 1996 FCBS newsletter

• PROBLEMS WITH BREEDING AND INTERPRETING RESULTS - Bill Morris

• LYMAN B. SMITH and HYBRIDS - Derek Butcher

Nomenclature

• AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE
  OF THE GENERIC NAMES OF THE BROMELIACEAE - Jason R. Grant, (1998) Selbyana 19(1): 91-121.

• ORTGIESIA - A SUBGENUS OF AECHMEA - Derek Butcher and Peter Franklin

Bromeliad People

• DON BEADLE - MR. BILLBERGIA'S DEEP LEGACY - Karen Andreas
• STEPHEN LITTLEFIELD - Karen Andreas
• AL MUZZELL - A Page Dedicated to the Memory of Al Muzzell
• DR. HELEN DEXTER - Karen Andreas
• KITI WENZEL - Dr. Larry Giroux
• NAT DeLEON - A Bromeliad Legend

• DEREK BUTCHER - FRIEND TO THE FLORIDA COUNCIL OF BROMELIAD SOCIETIES

• LYMAN B. SMITH and HYBRIDS - Derek Butcher

• ADDA ABENDROTH - Derek Butcher

• DR. HENRY NEHRLING (1853 - 1929) - Derek Butcher

• JULIAN NALLY (1903 - 1977) - Derek Butcher

• WALLY BERG (1927 - 2000) - A Page Dedicated to the Memory of Wally Berg
  If you have a memory of Wally Berg you would like to share
  you can post it to the Wally Berg Memory Page

• PROFESSOR WERNER RAUH (1914 - 2000) - Wilhelm Barthlott

• DR. FRANK SHERMAN - A Page Dedicated to the Memory of Dr. Frank Sherman

• CAROL JOHNSON and GEOFF JOHNSON, THE LEGENDS OF PINEAPPLE PLACE - A Page Dedicated to the Memory of Carol Johnson and Geoff Johnson

• AUGUSTO RUSCHI (1915 - 1986) - Derek Butcher

• GRAZIELA BARROSO (1912-2003) - The Tropical Botanist - Orlando Graeff

• JAMES V. ELMORE (1943-1989)

Misc.

• SOLVING THE FIREBALL MYSTERY - Nat DeLeon, 1987 FCBS newsletter, reprinted in February 1998 newsletter

• THYRSE - WHAT IS IT AND WHY IS IT IN THE BROMELIAD GLOSSARY - Derek Butcher

• VRIESEA HYBRIDS OF TODAY AND YESTERYEAR - Dr. Gilbert Samyn, A Paper presented at the Australian Bromeliad conference held in Adelaide 1995

• ADVENTURES OF A NOVICE: Part I - Ed Prince, about a trip to Ecuador with Wally Berg and Chester Skotak. article appeared in BSI Journal Vol.44 #4

• ADVENTURES OF A NOVICE: Part II - Ed Prince, about a trip to Panama with Wally Berg and Chester Skotak. article appeared in BSI Journal Vol.47 #1

• AN INTERPRETIVE NIGHTMARE - The Aechmea distichantha / wittmackiana Complex - Derek Butcher and Peter Franklin

• A TRIP TO THE FAHKAHATCHEE STRAND WITH THE CALOOSAHATCHEE BROMELIAD SOCIETY - Larry Giroux

• A TALE OF THE FABLED TAKEMURAS - James V. Elmore

• PUPS - A BIT OF LEXICOGRAPHY - Derek Butcher

• THE CARNIVOROUS BROMELIADS - Stewart McPherson

• BROMELIAD CLONE PRESERVATION PROJECT