Tillandsia x lineatispica (clone #2) CHINA Ben Sill’s unusual bigeneric hybrid

Ben Sill’s unusual bigeneric hybrid is a cultivar of Billbergia decora x Aechmea recurvata

because of its miniature size

This is a very odd hybrid that doesn’t much resemble either parent

spotted all over with bright red

One of the variegated miniature hybrids by the quirky

Tillandsia x lineatispica (clone #2) CHINA Ben Sill’s unusual bigeneric hybridA natural hybrid of (utriculata x fasciculata) known from the U. S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Our plants originated on the island of St. John in the vicinity of Cinnamon Bay where the only two possible parents of this beauty occur side by side. Taking the best of both parents, it has an inflorescence much larger and more branched than fasciculata, but much more colorful than utriculata. It does offset, though it may wait until the inflorescence