11505 - Bromeliads (Garden) - 2014-05-19
(Dimension: 1286 x 2050 pixels - Counter: 11649) Billbergia buchholtzii Locality: Leipzig, Germany Photographer: Uwe Note: First this is UD but is the only way I can add a photo.
I enclose a herbarium copy which agrees with the description by Mez and the plant grown at Kew under this name. Your plant has links to B. buchholtzii No1 which is now called 'Windigig special. The whole sorry tale in under the BCR because I treat this taxon as a hybrid not a species. You have partly solved the problem of the link to speciosa and I will be writing an addenda to the saga which we can agree on privately
Derek Butcher (Sent: brom-l@science.uu.nl)
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