Bromeliad Information

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

Culture

General Culture Information

• BROMELIADS - Information from The UFIFAS EDIS Home Page includes information on growing indoors and outdoors. Care and Culture section discusses requirements for light, temperature, humidity, air circulation, potting media and fertilization plus much more.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• NOTES FOR THE HYBRIDIST - Derek Butcher

• 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

• 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