[GrowRR] Vriesea platystachys

[Fred Ross]

Uncle Derek, I feel certain that Mulford and Racine Foster discovered it in
Brazil.  I remember reading their wonderful book `    BRAZIL - Orchid of the
Tropics.  The book was published in 1945 and is most fasinating .

Fred Ross
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From: "derek butcher" <tillands at senet.com.au>
To: <Brom-L at nic.surfnet.nl>
Cc: <GrowRR at bsi.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 3:34 AM
Subject: [GrowRR] Vriesea platystachys


> Observant ones.
> I have been discussing this plant with John Arden as to where it came from
> and what is it?
> It is in the Bromeliad Cultivar Register linking it to David Barry
> suggesting it is a cultivar. For the last 30 years it has been on the
> Seidel nursery (In Brazil) catalogue as a species.It has never been
described.
> Perhaps there is a Brazilian reader who can help because the Seidels find
> it hard to understand my Aussie English!
> Uncle Derek
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