Major changes are recorded here as UPDATE. Entries labeled NEWS do not relate to the contents of this website but concern new publications on bromeliads (books, journals, internet).


UPDATE  1/2012Added to the Menu is the chapter "Icon texts". This is basically the text from a series of articles that have been published in the Journal of the Bromeliad Society from 2007-2011, dealing with colorplates published in old mainly 19th century publications.
NEWS12/2011Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 61(4), major articles:
Eric Gouda: A discussion about Tillandsia confinis L.B. Smith and Tillandsia dudleyi L.B. Smith
Claudia Hornung Leoni & Aylé Pintado Peña: Preliminary exploration of bromeliad diversity in Hidalgo State, Mexico
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia chapalillaensis Ehlers & J. Lautner, spec.nov.
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 9; continuation of a series started in JBS57(5)
Bruce Dunstan: Travels in Colombia
Peter Tristram: Tillandsia magnispica in Australia
Geoff Lawn: Bromelia Aurelia
Geoff Lawn: New cultivar: Billbergia Alan Ladd
NEWS11/2011Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2011(3), major articles:
Peter Tristram: Searched and found: Alcantarea patriae, a travelreport from Brazil
Uwe Feldhoff & Héctor Sagastume: A day of full surprises searching for Tillandsias in Guatemala - the history on the finding of a new species (given the cultivarname T. Calavera)
Eric Gouda: Tillandsia spiraliflora flowering in the Utrecht Botanic Garden
Elton Leme & Harry Luther: A second species of Androlepis (A. fragrans), found in Mexico
Andreas Hofacker: Orthophytum diamantinense, a species known for a long time
Holger Sachs: Searching for Dyckia delicata
Renate Ehlers: A new discovery from Guatemala - Tillandsia tecpanensis
Frank Höpfel & Uwe Scharf: The giant and the dwarf - two new Racinaea from Peru and Ecuador (R. zingleri, R. hasei)
NEWS11/2011Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 61(3), major articles:
Eric Gouda: The correct name for Guzmania fusispica, now treated as a syn. of Guzmania bracteosa
Kerstin Meisner & Gerhard Zotz: Three morphs, one species, about variations in morphology of some bromeliads
Howard Frank, Dennis Giardina & Tim Andrus: Exploration in Guatemala and Belize for more parasitoids to use against Metamasius callizona (a weevil) in Florida
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 8; continuation of a series started in JBS57(5)
Andrew Maloy: Growing pattern-leave Vriesea outdoors in Auckland, New Zealand
Geoff Lawn: New cultivar: Dyckia Leopoldo Witeck
Geoff Lawn: New bigeneric genus x Enchotia (Encholirium x Hechtia)
Geoff Lawn: New cultivar: Enchotia Ruby
NEWS9/2011Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 61(2), major articles:
Elton Leme & Ludovic Kollmann: Two new species from Alto Cariri State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Neoregelia viridovinosa, Quesnelia tubifolia)
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 7; continuation of a series started in JBS57(5)
Bruce Dunstan: Bromeliads in Ecuador, a travel report
Derek Butcher: Tillandsia Hondurensis, a new cultivar name for a form of T. fasciculata
Geoff Lawn: New bigeneric genus x Ursulepis (Ursulaea x Androlepis)
Geoff Lawn: New cultivar: Aechmea Mild Chilli
NEWS8/2011Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 61(1), major articles:
Evan Bartholomew: Bromeliads in the digital age, about some of the websites dealing with bromeliads
Eric Gouda: Some notes about Pitcairnia marinii in cultivation
Peter Tristram: A great day in Brazil - Finding Alcantarea patriae
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 6; continuation of a series started in JBS57(5)
Peter Waters: Exploring in Brazil part 2, continuation from JBS60(6)
Geoff Lawn: New cultivar: Aechmea nudicaulis Rafa
Geoff Lawn: New cultivar: Alcantarea Landsendt Blue Gray
NEWS6/2011Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2011(2), major articles:
Jan Claus: Tillandsia searching in Guatemala, travelreport part 2 (end)
Elton Leme & Uwe Scharf: Two new species from the Atlantic forest of Northeastern Brazil (Aechmea maranguapensis, Bromelia unaensis)
Andreas Böker: Storage of seed and samen of Tillandsioideae
Eric Gouda: A bromeliad exploration trip to Ecuador part 2 (end)
Andreas Böker: Additions to the description of Tillandsia zacapanensis
Daniel Cáceres González, Katharina Schulte & Georg Zizka: Research in the taxonomy, diversity and biogeography of the bromeliads from West-Panama
Wolfgang Salz: Tillandsia subteres
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia floresensis - a new species from Chiapas in Mexico
Derek Butcher: Conservation collection of the German Bromeliad Society
Andreas Böker: News from the conservation collection - update march 2011
NEWS5/2011Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 60(6), major articles:
Harry Luther: Amazonian Aechmeas, two species illustrated
S. Heathcote & J. Smith: The Bromeliaceae of Wayqecha Research Centre, Manu National Park, Peru
Eric Gouda: Aechmea pseudonudicaulis, a man-made hybrid ?
Elton Leme & Otávio Ribeiro: Alcantarea compacta, a new species from the grasslands on rocky soils of Minas Gerais State, Brazil
Lieselotte Hromadnik: Tillandsia xerographica in Guatemala, conservation in habitat and the use in nurseries
Erin Titmus: Broms aglow in Kamo, a collection in New Zealand
Peter & Jeanette Waters: Exploring in Brazil, part 1, visiting collections and habitats
NEWS5/2011Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 60(5), major articles:
Elton Leme, Harry Luther, Walter Till & Heidemarie Halbritter: A new ornamental Neoregelia species from Serra dos Indios, Bahia, Brazil (Neoregelia rothinessa)
Eric Gouda: Some notes on petal color in Diaphoranthema
Geoff Lawn: New bigeneric genus: x Aechbergiopsis
Ana López-Ferrari, Adolfo Espejo-Serna, Jacqueline Ceja-Romero & Aniceto Mendoza-Ruiz: Hechtia lundelliorum, another spectacular and little known bromeliad from Mexico
Kerry Booth Tate: Introducing x Aechbergiopsis PITA
Michael Dorris: Germinating Tillandsia usneoides pollen
Jim Wright: Growing Vrieseas in the ground in southern California
Bruce Dunstan: Travels in Iquito, Peru
NEWS3/2011Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2011(1), major articles:
Andreas Hofacker: Tillandsia minasgeraisensis - a treasure from Brazil
Jan Claus: Tillandsia searching in Guatemala, travelreport part 1
Wofgang Salz: Tillandsia albertiana x edithae
Luiz Klein Varella: The Tillandsia species from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil : a passion
Eric Gouda: A bromeliad exploration trip to Ecuador (part 1)
Peter Tristram: Searching for Miss Fortuna, revisiting this Guzmania species in 2010 in Panama
Peter Tristram: Europe revisited in 2009, a look at some bromeliad collections
Eddie Esteves & Andreas Hofacker: Dyckia mauriziae - a new and almost extinct secund growing bromeliad from the cerrado in the state of Goiás, Brazil
NEWS2/2011Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 60(4), major articles:
Elton Leme: Re-establishing Hohenbergia capitata Schultes & Schultes fil. (former Aechmea capitata)
José Manzanares & Walter Till : Three new species of Racinaea from Ecuador (R. gentryana, goudae, grantii)
Michael Dorris: What is plant tissue culture ?
Jay Thurrot: Pineapples in Florida
Derek Butcher: Bromeliaceae and its eight subfamilies, new classification according to T. Givnish et al. (2007)
NEWS12/2010Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2010(3), major articles:
Pierre Braun, Eddie Esteves Pereira & Uwe Scharf: Dyckia cangaphila - a new xeromorphic species from Goias, Central Brazil
Elton Leme & André Paviotti Fontana: New in Alcantarea: a new large species (A. cerosa) and "pseudovivipary" with A. glaziouana
Mario Véliz & Uwe Feldhoff: Tillandsia zacapanensis, a new species from Middle America
Andreas Böker: Cleaning or not cleaning - that is the question, about keeping the leaves of bromeliads free of dirt
Jan Claus: And yet it is flowering - my Tillandsia esseriana !
Eric Gouda: A new small Tillandsia in the T. tenuifolia-complex (T. pardoi)
Andreas Böker: Tillandsia streptophylla x Tillandsia caput-medusae, a natural hybrid
NEWS12/2010Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 60(3), major articles:
Elton Leme & Harry Luther: Tranferring Canistrum flavipetalum Wand. to Wittrockia
Noema Flores & Rachel Jabaily : New localities and taxonomic synopsis of Puya mima, a charismatic and important Puya from central Peru
Erin Titmus: Whangarei Subtropical Quarry Gardens, a bromeliad garden in New Zealand
Derek Butcher: Tillandsia 'Silver Candelabra', a cultivar name for Tillandsia viridiflora variegata
Peter Tristram: Searching for Miss Fortuna 2010 style, a travel report from Panama
NEWS11/2010Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 60(2), major articles:
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: A new grey Vriesea from northern Peru (Vriesea kentii Luther & Norton)
Elton Leme & André Fontana : Studies in Orthophytum part XI, three new species (O. buranhense Leme & Fontana, O. erigens Leme, O. roseum Leme) from Bahia and Minas Gerais
Sofia Solórzano, Sandra Solís & Patricia Dávila : Low genetic diversity in Tillandsia recurvata, the most ubiquitous epiphyte species of the semiarid and arid zones of North America
Derek Butcher: Dyckia estevesii revisited, about the different forms of this species
Karen Andreas: Bromeliad basics: removing offsets
Len Colgan: The wanton Tillandsia complanata, variations and hybrids encountered while traveling in Ecuador
NEWS9/2010Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 60(1), major articles:
Elton Leme & Ludovic Kollmann : Studies in Orthophytum part X, two small-sized new species (O. pseudostolonifera Leme & Kollmann, O. guaratingense Leme & Kollmann)
Harry Luther: Guzmania ferruginea Luther, a new species from Peru and Ecuador
Elton Leme, Thais Trindade-Lima & Otávio Ribeiro : Revision of the lithophytic Vriesea species from Minas Gerais State, Brazil - part IV
Bridget Magney: Framed bromeliads, a way of presenting bromeliads in hanging wooden frames
Francisco Oliva-Esteve & Bruno Manara: Looking for bromeliads in the peninsula of Paria in Sucre State, Venezuela - a travel report
Francisco Oliva-Esteve: Misnamed bromeliads in my books, corrections on the naming of some taxons
NEWS8/2010Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2010(2), major articles:
Uwe Scharf: Seeding Bromelioids and Pitcairnioids on the lid of upside down placed glass pots, an adaptation of the so called Fleischer method
Jan Claus: All Tillandsia gardneri ?, about the different forms of this species
Frank Höpfel: At the date of death 150 years ago of Alexander von Humboldt: Tillandsia humboldtii rediscovered in Ecuador
Roberto Vásquez, Pierre Ibisch & Saúl Altamirano: Die Bromelien Boliviens (IX): Puya donneriana, a new species from the dry valleys in Chuquisacas, Bolivia
Eric Gouda: A new combination and status in Tillandsia ixioides, T. jucunda var. viridiflora is better placed as a subspecies of T. ixioides
Andreas Böker: 40 years German Bromeliad Society, a little chronicle on the years 1970-1990
Uwe Scharf & Mark Maraun: Determination of oribatid mites that were discovered in Tillandsias, follow up from an article in Die Bromelie 2007(3):129-133
NEWS7/2010Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 59(6), major articles:
Elton Leme : A new Nidularium species (N. rolfianum Leme) from the Atlantic Forest of the São Paulo state, Brazil, and issues against nominal extinction
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: Guzmania nangaritzae Luther & Norton, a new species from southeastern Ecuador
Roberto Santos et al.: Survey of invertebrates associated with bromeliads in a conservation unit of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest and its relevance for environmental risk studies
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 5; continuation of a series started in JBS57(5)
NEWS3/2010Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2010(1), major articles:
Matthias Lieber: The vegetative propagation of Tillandsioideae, mounting, methods and growing
Pia Rösslein: Peculiar flowering behaviour of Tillandsia violascens
Andreas Böker: Greenhouse installation - reasonably priced materials for placing and hanging plants
Jan Claus: Tillandsia geminiflora var. incana in culture
Renate Ehlers: What holds on for a long time is becoming clear in the end - Tillandsia kolbii and Tillandsia scaposa, the distinction between two valid species
Roel Thomassen: Aechmea carvalhoi - a small but remarkable species
René & Junsong Dai-Meyer: Neoregelias - culture experiences
Eric Gouda: Vriesea (Tillandsia) curvispica with compound inflorescence
Lieselotte Hromadnik: A Bolivian travel, final part of a series of travel reports from Bolivia and the encounters with Tillandsias
NEWS3/2010Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 59(5), major articles:
Elton Leme: A new Aechmea species from the mountains of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil (A. lilacinantha Leme from subgen Chevaliera)
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: A new Vriesea species from northern Peru (V. altomayoensis Luther & Norton)
Olga de Castro, Paola Cennamo, Mario Vazquéz-Torres & Paolo de Luca: Molecular studies about two rare species of the genus Tillandsia (T. califanii Rauh and T. tomasellii De Luca, Sabato & Balduzzi)
Geoff Lawn: Aechmea Exotica Candy and Aechmea Exotica Candystripes, describing the background of these cultivars
Maurice Kellett: Back to grass roots, experiences with root formation of Tillandsias in cultivation
Chris Lee: Bromeliads at Kew Garden, U.K., pictures of some species in this collection
Eric La Fountaine: What happened to these Puyas ?, unexplained charred remains in a national park in Chile
Andrew Flower: Aechmea caesia in flower, photos by Elton Leme
NEWS3/2010Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 59(4), major articles:
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: A new Aechmea from eastern Ecuador (A. gentryi Luther & Norton, related to A. chantinii)
Elton Leme, Ludovic Kollmann & André Fontana: Two new species from Pedra dos Pontões, an unexplored mountain in Espírito Santo, Brazil (Pitcairnia abyssicola Leme & L. Kollmann and Neoregelia dayvidiana Leme & A. Fontana)
Angel Fernández: Aechmea bauxilumii (Bromeliaceae), a new species from Los Pijiguaos, Venezuelan Guyana
Geoff Lawn: Encholirium Angelita, a cultivar once thought to be a Dyckia species
Andrew Flower: Aechmea roeseliae in cultivation, a plant obtained from the Deroose nursery, photographed by Eric Gouda
Andrew Flower: Controlling greenhouse heating, regulating the temperature in order to give cultivated bromeliads a decent diurnal range in winter
Marcia Valle Ribeiro de Oliveira: Oil on canvas, photos of some oil paintings of bromeliads by this Brazilian artist
NEWS12/2009Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 59(3), major articles:
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: Guzmania leonard-kentiana Luther & Norton, another new species from eastern Peru
Elton Leme & Claudio de Paula: Cryptanthus ferrarius, a new species from the iron-rich soils of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on the way to extinction
José Manzanares & Walter Till: A new species of Racinaea from the province of Azuay in southern Ecuador (Racinaea strobeliorum Manzanares & Till)
Walter Till: Under Aechmea, A. vallerandii is the correct name for Streptocalyx poeppigii
Geoff Lawn: New bigeneric genus: x Racindsia (Racinaea x Tillandsia)
Hiroyuki Takizawa: Creating Racindsia La Mano Magica, the process of making this bigeneric
Moyna Prince: Nat Deleon - an interview with one of the founding members of the Bromeliad Society of Florida and well-known hybridizer
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 4; continuation of a series started in JBS57(5)
NEWS12/2009Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2009(2/3), major articles:
Pierre Ibisch, Jule Peters, Kurt Weising & Roberto Vásquez: The bromeliads of Bolivia (VIII): Remarks on Fosterella christophii, F. elviragrossiae, F. kroemeri, F. villosula and F. windischii
Andreas Böker: Tillandsia oaxacana - the "real one"
Atsushi Sato: In-vitro seeding of Tillandsias
Pierre Braun, Eddie Esteves Pereira & Uwe Scharf : Dyckia atratiflora Braun, Esteves & Scharf, a new black-flowering species from Goiás, Central Brazil
Oscar Ribeiro: Forgotten habitats in Brazil: cerrado and caatinga
Lieselotte Hromadnik: A Bolivian travel, part 4 of a series of travel reports from Bolivia and the encounters with Tillandsias
Uwe Scharf & Wolfgang Salz: A for bromeliad collections dangerous fungus: Colletotrichum sp. (Fungi, Ascomycota)
NEWS12/2009Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2009 Sonderheft 6:
Renate Ehlers: Die grünblühenden, kleinen, grauen Tillandsien Mexicos (The green-blooming, small, grey Tillandsias from Mexico)
NEWS7/2009Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 59(2), major articles:
Elton Leme & Ludovic Kollmann: Two new giant bromelioides from the Atlantic Forest of Espírito Santo, Brazil (Aechmea aguadocensis Leme & Kollmann, Hohenbergia mutabilis Leme & Kollmann)
Bruce Holst & Yuriba Vivas Arroyo: A beautiful new species of Lindmania ( Bromeliaceae) from Venezuela (Lindmania vinotincta Holst & Vivas)
Elton Leme & Zenilton de Miranda: Studies on Dyckia from central Brazil - Part II, with a new species: Dyckia mirandiana Leme & Miranda
Herb Plever: Plant pots and collateral issues, on cultivation in plastic pots
Harry Luther: Misnamed bromeliads #22: Vriesea psittacina var. decolor
Bromeliad Society of South Florida: Bromeliad clone preservation project, aimed at rescuing and preserving older bromeliad species and clones in cultivation
Andrew Flower: Tillandsia lotteae in cultivation
NEWS5/2009Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 59(1), major articles:
Otávio Ribeiro, Cláudio Coelho de Paula & Elidio Guarçoni: A new Vriesea species from Serra do Cipó National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil (V. cipoensis Ribeiro, Paula & Guarconi)
Elton Leme: Alcantarea mucilaginosa Leme, a new species from Espírito Santo, Brazil
Eric Gouda: Some notes on Pitcairnia longissimiflora, a species described by P. Ibisch & R. Vásquez in 1999
Elton Leme: Notes on Alcantarea : a new medium-sized species (Alcantarea vasconcelosiana Leme) and additions to Alcantarea roberto-kautskyi
Jerry Raack: Quilling, the sticking together of leaves and what to do about it
Diane Timmins: Alcantarea "skirts" . . . better on or off ?, what to do with the lower dead leaves
Derek Butcher & Geoff Lawn: Neorergelia Perdita, a not identified species given a cultivar name
David Christiano: My Tillandsias are freezing, about a trip to northwest Argentia and the frost-hardiness of the plants in cultivation
NEWS3/2009Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2009(1), major articles:
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia santosiae Ehlers, a small, grey saxicolous new species from Oaxaca, Mexico
Wolfgang Salz: Tillandsia, a fine matter, about the author's collection in Dresden
Lieselotte Hromadnik: Tillandsia colorata L. Hromadnik - a new small species from the province of Salta, Argentina, related to Tillandsia argentina
Andreas Böker: A short introduction to Tillandsia polzii
Pierre Braun, Eddie Esteves Pereira & Uwe Scharf : Bromelia charlesii Braun, Esteves & Scharf, a new large decorative and xeromorph species from West-Bahia, Brazil
Walter Till: Tillandsia barfussii W. Till - a new species from Central Paraguay
Lieselotte Hromadnik: A Bolivian travel, part 3 of a series of travel reports from Bolivia and the encounters with Tillandsias
Axel Fläschendräger: A Alcantarea imperialis , the "Emperor of the mountains", flowering in the botanical garden of Halle
Katharina Schulte: New developments in bromeliadresearch - report from the international seminar "Monocots IV 2008" in Copenhagen
NEWS2/2009Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 58(6), major articles:
Renate Ehlers & Walter Till: Tillandsia minasgeraisensis Ehlers & Till, a new species from Minas Gerais, Brazil
Walter Till: Vriesea speckmaieri Till, a new lower-altitude cloud forest species from Northern Venezuela
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: A new Guzmania from Southeastern Ecuador (Guzmania pseudodissitiflora Luther & Norton)
Elton Leme: Studies on Orthophytum part IX - The subcomplex "mello-barretoi" and another new species (Orthophytum diamantinense Leme) from Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jason Grant: Book reviews
Elton Leme: A new Quesnelia-species from Bahia, Brazil (Quesnelia conquistensis Leme)
Jerry Krulik: Varieties of Spanish moss, reprinted from "Pup Talk" (Saddleback Valley Brom. Soc.)
Derek Butcher: More musings by the registrar, on cultivar registration
Andrew Flower: Margaret Mee - botanical artist
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 3; continuation of a series started in JBS57(5)
Jules Chantrier: Love of bromeliads breeds fellowship among man, war-time story reprinted from Bromeliad Society Bulletin vol.1(4) 1951
NEWS1/2009Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2008(3), major articles:
Pierre Braun, Eddie Esteves Pereira & Uwe Scharf : Dyckia edwardii Braun, Esteves & Scharf, a new large and xerophytic species from Goias, Central Brazil
Lieselotte Hromadnik: A Bolivian travel, part 2 of a series of travel reports from Bolivia and the encounters with Tillandsias
Uwe Scharf: Hardy bromeliads ? Certainly worth a try: Ochagavia und Fascicularia
Frank Höpfel & Uwe Scharf: Racinaea wuelfinghoffii Höpfel & Scharf, a spectacular new species from Ecuador
Heinrich Buser: Tillandsia ampla - a short story (about T. secunda !)
Roel Tomassen: Tillandsia mallemontii and Tillandsia edithae, experiences in culture
Andreas Böker: Finaly in flower: Tillandsia nuptialis, portrait of this species
NEWS12/2008Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 58(5), major articles:
Ezequiel Aráoz & Alfredo Grau: Puya bravoi (Bromeliaceae), a new species from northwestern Argentina
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: Guzmania vinacea, a new species from northeastern Peru
Elton Leme, Claudio de Fraga, Ludovic Kollmann & André Fontana: Three new Alcantarea species from Espírito Santos and Minas Gerais, Brazil (A. longibracteata, A. simplicisticha, A. nigripetala)
Derek Butcher: Conservation initiative, about status information added to the species database on www.fcbs.org relating to endangered bromeliads
Paul House: Monitoring of the critically threatened epiphyte Tillandsia hondurensis, in the Bosque de Pino Montano, Honduras
Harry Luther: Misnamed bromeliads 21: Neoregelia camorimiana vs. N. fluminensis
Derek Butcher: Tillandsia 'Aeranthos Major', a cultivar name for an unpublished variety of T. aeranthos
Gerry Hood: Don't confuse sphagnum moss with peat moss, about a fungal disease causing chronic infection with humans
Larry Giroux: WBC 2008 Cairns show report of the world bromeliad conference held in June 2008 in Australia
NEWS10/2008Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 58(4), major articles:
Ivón Rámirez et al.: Reproductive biology of six species of Tillandsia L. (Bromeliaceae) in Mexico
Eric Gouda & José Manzanares: A new species of Racinaea (Bromeliaceae) from Peru (Racinaea penduliflora)
Gregory Brown, Walter Till, Elton Leme & Jason Grant: Review: Bromeliaceae - Flora Fanerogamica do estado de São Paulo, some critical taxonomical considerations
Cláudio de Paula & Aruay Goldschmidt: Bromeliaceae from Parque do Itacolomi, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lyn Wegner: Bromeliads for Africa !, a personal account of a starting bromeliad nursery in South Africa
Dennis Heckart: Hybridizing bromeliads for fun, the hobby of a bromeliad hybridist from Hawaii
Derek Butcher: Cultivar corner, this time raising the question how different cultivars should be to give them separate names
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 2; continuation of a series started in JBS57(5)
NEWS10/2008Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2008(2), major articles:
Christian Vogt: Tillandsia recurvifolia in Paraguay: natural habitats and distribution
Jule Peters, Kurt Weising & Pierre Ibisch: Fosterella nicoliana Peters & Ibisch, a new species of the Peruvian Amazon lowlands with a hitherto unknown shape of seed
Lieselotte Hromadnik: A Bolivian travel, part 1 of a series of travel reports from Bolivia and the encounters with Tillandsias
Uwe Scharf: Labeling and documentation of a plant collection
Renate Ehlers: A red-flowering beauty from Rio San Nicolas (Jalisco, Mexico): Tillandsia nicolasensis (earlier published in JBS56(2) 2006)
Pierre Braun, Eddie Esteves Pereira & Uwe Scharf : Bromelia araujoi Braun, Esteves & Scharf, a new xerophytic species from Maranhão in the north of Brazil
Frank Höpfel & Uwe Scharf: Racinaea marioportillae Höpfel & Scharf, a remarkable new species from Ecuador
Uwe Scharf: The Utrecht Herbarium (Netherlands), its type specimens of Bromeliaceae and the consequences of the closure of this herbarium and library
NEWS8/2008Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2008(1), major articles:
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia coalcomanensis Ehlers, a new species from the state of Michoacan, Mexico (resembling T. durangensis )
Lydia & Gerhard Köhres: The discovery of Tillandsia coalcomanensis, a travel report
Jürgen Lautner: Discovery trip in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, from Tehuantepec to El Cameron, travel report continued from Die Bromelie 2007(2)
Frank Höpfel: Searching for "lost" bromeliads: Racinaea hauggiae rediscovered in Ecuador
Renate Ehlers: Memories: my Mexico, yesterday and today, about the disappearance of habitats through activities of man
Pierre Braun, Eddie Esteves Pereira & Uwe Scharf : Dyckia joanae-marcioi a new succulent bromeliad from northern Minas Gerais, Brazil
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia comitanensis Ehlers, a large species from the state of Chiapas, Mexico (earlier published as new species in J. Bromeliad Soc. 56(3) 2006)
NEWS7/2008Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 58(3), major articles:
Otávio Ribeiro & Cláudio de Paula: Orthophytum humile, an endangered species of Brazilian Flora
Elton Leme & Cláudio de Paula: Studies on Orthophytum part VIII - Two new species from Grão-Mogol State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil (O. graomogolense, O. piranianum)
Cláudio de Paula, Renato da Silva & Tereza Kolontai: Bromeliaceae of Rio São João Mangrove, Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Uwe Scharf & Eric Gouda: Bringing Bromeliaceae back to homeland botany, about the deviating use of descriptive characters for bromeliads compared to those in general botany, and a guide for their correct use (also published in Die Bromelie 57(2) 2007)
Derek Butcher: Vriesea gravisiana - the terrible twins !, the identities (cultivars) of two Vrieseas both described in 1890 with the same name
Derek Butcher: Neoregelia Fireball, a well-known cultivar that is an undescribed species
UPDATE7/2008About 450 photographs of landscapes, cities and other non-bromeliad scenes from Latin-American countries have been added in picture-galleries in Travels
NEWS6/2008Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 58(2), major articles:
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: Aechmea jungurudoensis H. Luther & K. Norton, a new species from Darien, Panama
Ana López-Ferrari & Adolfo Espejo-Serna et al.: Hechtia matudae L. B. Smith, a spectacular though neglected bromeliad from Mexico
Elton Leme, Walter Till, Gregory Brown, Jason Grant & Rafaël Govaerts: Eduandrea, a new generic name for Andrea (that name appeared to be illegitimate)
Elidio Guarçoni & Cláudio Coelho de Paula: Eduandrea selloana, field notes on a new area of occurrence in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Karen Andreas: Bromeliad basics: bromeliad pests, prevention and control of scales
Peter Waters: A new cultivar of an elusive Canistrum, a form of Canistrum auratum recently found in Bahia, Brazil
Derek Butcher: Times are a-changing, about the importance and use of the cultivar register
Lynn Hudson: 14th Australian Bromeliad Conference held in september 2007, a report
Vera Porwollik & Pierre Ibisch: Get involved in conservation !, rules and recommendations for bromeliad conservation
UPDATE5/2008Travels: Argentina-A (Salta, Tucumán) added; photos added to Brazil-A (Rio de Janeiro state)
UPDATE4/2008About 400 photographs have been added, mainly in Genera
NEWS4/2008Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2007(3), major articles:
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia huajuapanensis Ehlers & Lautner, a new species growing on rock-faces in Oaxaca, Mexico
Uwe Scharf: Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) dwelling on grey Tillandsias, these mites are usually only living on dead plant material
Andreas Gröger: In Venezuelan Guyana: Brewcaria, the big brother of Navia, a description of the habitat of the six species of this genus
Alex Riemis: Tillandsias and ruins in northern Peru, second and last part of a travel report by the late Alex Riemis, translated and annotated by Lieselotte Hromadnik
Roberto Vásquez & Pierre Ibisch: The bromeliads of Bolivia (VII): Puya sehuencasensis R. Vásquez, P. Ibisch & R. Lara, a new overlooked species from the Carrasco National Park in a Yungas valley near Cochabamba
Peter Tristram: Bromeliads "down under", the use of bromeliads in different parts of Australia by hobbyists and professionals
Jürgen Röth: In memory of Alvim Seidel (1927-2007), the owner of the nursery Orquidário Catarinense in Brazil and collector of orchids and bromeliads
Timm Stolten: Ochagavia carnea flowering at the botanical garden Heidelberg
Katharina Schulte & Georg Zizka: Searching for the primeval bromeliad - basal lineages within the bromeliad family, pointing at genera from the Guayana shield in Venezuela, possibly the cradle of the bromeliads
NEWS4/2008Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 58(1), major articles:
Elton Leme & Cláudio Coelho de Paula: Two new Alcantarea species from Minas Gerais, Brazil (Alcantarea distractila Leme & Paula, Alcantarea lurida Leme)
Elton Leme, Ludovic Kollmann & André Paviotti Fontana: Three new Cryptanthus species from Espírito Santo and Bahia, Brazil (Cryptanthus sanctaluciae Leme & Kollmann, Cryptanthus giganteus Leme & Fontana, Cryptanthus crassifolius Leme)
Derek Butcher: Neoregelia species that aren't species, two plants wrongly labeled as species given a cultivarname now
Francisco Oliva-Esteve: A note about Pitcairnia oliva-estevae, the discovery of this species
Andrew Flower: The case of the mysterious druid, adaptation of Tillandsia ionantha and some of its cultivars to low and high altitude habitats and way of photosynthesis
Harvey Beltz: In memory of Alvim Seidel (1927-2007), of the nursery Orquidário Catarinense in Brazil
UPDATE3/2008About 900 images have been added, they are drawings - most of them in colour - from old botanical and horticultural publications (19th and 20th century) and can be accessed via Lists > Bromeliad Picture Index.
UPDATE2/2008A new list has been added, containing the titles of books and CD-ROMS's published since 2000 (Lists > Books 2000+).
NEWS1/2008Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 57(6), major articles:
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: A new Guzmania from Darien, Panama (Guzmania teucamae H. Luther & K. Norton)
Elton Leme & Harry Luther: A new giant Aechmea from Bahia, Brazil (Aechmea mira Leme & H. Luther)
Howard Frank, Dennis Giardina, Tim Andrus & José Monzón: Searching in Guatemala for more parasitoids to use against Metamasius callizona in Florida, biological control against a bromeliad-threatening weevil
Elton Leme: Three subtle new Cryptanthus species from the Espinhaço range, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Cryptanthus lavrasensis Leme, Cryptanthus regius Leme, Cryptanthus tiradentesensis Leme)
Jack Koning: My Vriesea hybridizing, experiences from a bromeliadgrower in Australia
Ken Marks: Rara Avis, part 2; report on a trip to an eco-sanctuary in Costa Rica, continued from BSI Journal 57(5)
NEWS12/2007Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2007(2), major articles:
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia yutaninoensis Ehlers & Lautner, a new very large species from Oaxaca, Mexico (resembling T. juerg-rutschmannii )
Jürgen Lautner: Discovery trip in the Mexcian state of Oaxaca, a report of the finding of Tillandsia yutaninoensis
Uwe Scharf, Eric Gouda & Walter Till: The return of the bromeliads in botanical terminology, about the deviating use of descriptive characters for bromeliads compared to those in general botany, and a guide for their correct use
Stewart McPherson: The carnivorous bromeliads, a discussion about Catopsis berteroniana, Brocchinia reducta and Brocchinia hechtioides from Venezuela
Roberto Vásquez & Pierre Ibisch: The bromeliads of Bolivia (VI): Puya larae R. Vásquez & P. Ibisch and Puya boopiensis R. Vásquez, P. Ibisch & R. Lara, two new species from the Yungas of La Paz
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia huamenulaensis R. Ehlers, a species from the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, related to T. limbata (earlier published as a new species in JBS 56(2) 2006)
Bärbel Henneberger: The use of bromeliads with the Quichua in Ecuador, medicinal and economical appications by the indians
Alex Riemis: Tillandsias and ruins in northern Peru, a travel report (translated and annotated by Lieselotte Hromadnik)
NEWS11/2007Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 57(5), major articles:
José Manzanares & Walter Till: A new species of Racinaea (Bromeliaceae) from the province of Loja in southern Ecuador (Racinaea pattersoniae)
Elton Leme: Studies on Orthophytum part VII - A new species from "caatinga" of northeast Brazil, a semi-arid region (Orthophytum catingae)
Elton Leme: Improving taxa and character sampling to support generic and infrageneric status of Alcantarea, a case for more use of living specimens in taxonomy
Derek Butcher: Neoregelia 'Takemura Grande' - a cold case or is it ?, about the names in use related to this cultivar
Theresa Bert: Growing Alcantarea, the cultivation of these predominantly large species
Leo Dijkgraaf: Bromeliad icons in old publications, part 1; start of a series on drawings of bromeliads in publications from the 19th century
Ken Marks: Rara Avis, part 1; report on a trip to an eco-sanctuary in Costa Rica
NEWS9/2007Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 57(4), major articles:
Elton Leme & Ludovic Kollmann: Studies on Orthophytum part VI - Three new species from Espírito Santo, Brazil (O. boudetianum, striatifolium, pseudovagans)
Tânia Wendt: Aechmea roberto-seidelii: the correct name for Aechmea guarapariensis, clarifying the confusion around this and related species
Gilberto Morillo & Francisco Oliva-Esteve: Tillandsia santieusebii Morillo & Oliva-Esteve, a new species from the Venezuelan Andes
Derek Butcher: Terminology, brings under the attention some definitions in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (e.g. cultivar, clone, sport)
Geoff Lawn: Neoregelia bahiana, a form of this species with reddish leaves proposed as cultivar Pabst
Derek Butcher: Vriesea Sceptre d'Or: another can of hybrid worms, tracing history and registering present-day plants in connection to this old hybrid
Andrew Flower: Dawn sweep of greenhouse rescues orphans, seedlings fallen off their mounts are glued again on "orphan sticks"
Heinz Schwendener: Madeira - Garden in the Atlantic Ocean, about this island and the the bromeliads cultivated by the author there
Carol Wolfe: Top award survives hurricane Katrina, windy and other experiences of Mal Mele in his greenhouse in Louisiana
NEWS7/2007Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 57(3), major articles:
Roberto Vásquez & Pierre Ibisch: Puya pachyphylla Vásquez & Ibisch, a new species from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and new synonyms of Puya tuberosa Mez
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: Guzmania kareniae H. Luther & K. Norton, a new species from Ecuador previously treated as a rose-pink bracted Guzmania squarrosa
Jacqueline Romero & Alicia Leal: Leaf anatomy of the Mexican species of Greigia
Cláudio Coelho de Paula & Elidio Guarçoni: Neoglaziova variegata, a fiber-producing (called 'caroá') Brazilian bromeliad
Cláudio Coelho de Paula & Elidio Guarçoni: Aechmea sphaerocephala Baker, a species threatened by local extinction growing in sandbank areas along the Brazilian coast
Pierre Ibisch & Vera Porwollik: Bromeliad conservation corner: need for strategy and action
Pierre Ibisch & Vera Porwollik: Proposed conservation code of conduct for BSI members
Renate Ehlers: Protective collection pogram for bromeliads, survival of type-plants and rare plants in cultivation
Herb Plever: Lyman B. Smith, an appreciation, about the contributions to bromeliad-taxonomy of this botanist (1905-1997)
Francisco Oliva-Esteve: The XVII bromeliad conference in Caracas (March 2007), a report
David Anderson: Bromeliad Society of New Zealand Fiesta 2007, a report on this exhibition
NEWS6/2007Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2007(1), major articles:
Pierre Braun: The discovery of Bromelia horstii in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Katharina Schulte: A bromeliad in Africa: how did Pitcairnia feliciana get to Guinea ?
Lieselotte Hromadnik: Tillandsia ermitae L. Hromadnik, a new species from the Peruvian Andes
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia cucaensis Wittmack, a valid species and not a syn. of T. makoyana
Jürgen Röth: Alvim Seidel 80 years and Orquídario Catarinense 100 years, the history of this family-nursery in Brazil
Christian Vogt: Bromeliads on the sanddunes in the dry Chaco of Paraguay
Harro Heidt: The little treasures amongst the Tillandsias, red flowered species from Brazil
Joachim Marx: Pitcairnia elvirae Taylor & Robinson flowering in culture
NEWS5/2007Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 57(2), major articles:
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: Guzmania kressii H. Luther & K. Norton, a new species from Western Colombia
Silvia Gómez, Alberto Slanis & Alfredo Grau: Puya bermejana Gómez, Slanis & Grau, a new species from Southern Bolivia and North-western Argentina
Thorsten Krömer & Amparo Acebey: The bromeliad flora of the San Martin Tuxtla Volcano, Veracruz, Mexico
Carol Wolfe: Bromeliad named in honor of Tom Wolfe (cultivar Neoregelia 'Tom Wolfe')
Ben Sill: Bromeliads and a Cuban treefrog, about the behavior of a frog in a greenhouse with bromeliads
Stewart McPherson: The carnivorous bromeliads, a discussion about Catopsis berteroniana, Brocchinia reducta and Brocchinia hechtioides
John Coenen, Jeroen van der Steen, Cees Fransen & Uwe Scharf: Introduction to the activities of the Dutch/Belgian Bromeliad Society
UPDATE4/2007The list "Bromeliad Picture Index" has been split in two parts, one list for species and one for cultivars. Information is added concerning the source of the publication of the current speciesnames and also of the basionyms.
NEWS2/2007Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 3/2006, major articles:
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia limbata Schldl. and related species in Mexico, an overview of this complex
Uwe Scharf: The 'types' defined by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (holotype, lectotype etc.), explained with the example of Tillandsia limbata
Joachim Saul: Traveling in Nicaragua, observations on the bromeliad flora encountered in two different regions
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia pseudooxacana Ehlers, a new species from Oaxaca state in Mexico
NEWS2/2007Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2/2006, major articles:
Pierre Ibisch et al.: The bromeliads of Bolivia (V): Fosterella gracilis (Rusby) L. B. Smith, taxonomical history of the only Fosterella-species with yellow flowers
Frank Hase: Tillandsia buseri Mez, culture of this species from Ecuador
Andreas Böker: Colors of Tillandsia flowers, observations on the variability within a species
Lieselotte Hromadnik: Additional remarks on Tillandsia rupicola as described in Die Bromelie Sonderheft 5 (2005)
Uwe Scharf: The European tree frog Hyla arborea, an exotic touch in middle-European bromeliad collections
Joachim Marx: Tillandsia australis Mez, a portrait of this big plant in flower
Andreas Böker & Denis Gödecke: A bromeliad collection for conservation purposes, to conserve and propagate bromeliads from different private collections as a goal for the DBG
Joachim Marx: Catopsis - a little known genus of bromeliads ?, last part in a tripartite article
NEWS2/2007Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 57(1), major articles:
Carolina Granados Mendoza: Taxonomic study of the genus Tillandsia in the Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Simon Pierce: Leviathans of the cloud forest: epiphytic bromeliads with woody stems, big Werauhia-species in Panama
Jason Grant: Pitcairnia albo-lutea Grant and Pitcairnia oliva-estevae Grant, two new species from the Andes of Venezuela
Derek Butcher: Neoregelia cv. Madam President
Tom Wolfe: Vriesea gigantea, flowering after 20 years in the collection of the author
Andrew Flower: Sources and strengths of nitrogen in Tillandsia propagation, a trial to reduce the time to bring the plants from seed to flowering
Howard Frank: Viesea platynema, Atta (leaf-cutting ants) and other insects: student experiences in Venezuela concerning the possible preference by insects for leaves of plants from diverse genera
Ken Marks: Nutans nocturn, about Catopsis nutans, a night-flowering bromeliad in Florida
NEWS1/2007Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 56(6), major articles:
Lucia Hechavarria Schwesinger: Tillandsia in Cuba: an overview of the species of that genus from that country
Walter Till & Michael Barfuss: Progress towards a new classification of Tillandsioideae, using molecular data
Claudia Hornung-Leoni: Nectar production in Pitcairnia imbricata, a study from Jalapa, Mexico
Herb Plever: Observe and react to changing conditions, indoor cultivation of bromeliads
Ken Marks: Florida bromeliads: a modest quest, part3 of a travalogue continued from BS56(5)
NEWS1/2007Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 56(5), major articles:
Roberto Lima Santos and others:: Biogeography of the bromeliad-dwelling scorpion Tityus neglectus in Brazil
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: Vriesea fosteriana revisited again, about the variety seideliana, also treated as cultivar 'Red Chestnut'
Geoff Lawn: One-time bloomers - the spectacular monocarps, bromeliads that do not produce offsets in nature, reproducing by seed only
Tom Wolfe: Aechmea mariae-reginae, a bromeliad with separate male and female plants
Brian Chudleigh: Frogs and bromeliads in a New Zealand garden
Andrew Flower: Royal Flora 2006, a flower exhibition in Thailand
Ken Marks: Florida bromeliads: a modest quest, part2 of a travalogue continued from BS56(4)
NEWS1/2007Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 56(4), major articles:
Eric Gouda & José Manzanares: Recognition of Caraguata pulchella André as a good species in Racinaea, a new combination named Racinaea pulchella (André) Gouda & Manzanares
David Benzing: What is it that plant taxonomists do ?, how modern taxonomists are using DNA-analysis beside morphological data for a system of classification based on evolutionary relationships
Harry Luther: A new name for an old Guzmania, Guzmania conglomerata H. Luther, a species always confused with Guzmania eduardii
Virginia Guess & Robert Guess: A pseudo-bromeliad from Chiapas, Mexico, street vendors marketing Catopsis-species with attached gladiola flowers
Ken Marks: Florida bromeliads: a modest quest, part1 of a travalogue
Karen Andreas: Bromeliads on the border, a report on the World Bromeliad Conference held in San Diego
NEWS9/2006Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 56(3), major articles:
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: Guzmania cinnabarina H. Luther & K. Norton, a new species from Panama
Elton Leme & Marlon Machado: Studies on Orthophytum - Part V, with descriptions of two new species: Orthophytum conquistense Leme & Machado and Orthophytum harleyi Leme & Machado, both from Bahia, Brazil
Ana Helena Brito Berhouet: Where to find bromeliads in Uruguay, an overview of the species from that country
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia comitanensis R. Ehlers, a new species from the state of Chiapas, Mexico
Eric Gouda: Introducing Vriesea cacuminis L. B. Smith, a bromeliad endemic to Ibitipoca State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Geoff Lawn: Radial reds revisited, bromeliad cultivars from the genera Aechmea and Neoregelia with red-lined foliage
Brian Chudleigh: Some experiences with growing Tillandsias in New Zealand
NEWS9/2006Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 1/2006, major articles:
Pierre Braun & Eddie Esteves Pereira: Encholirium maximum Forzza & Leme, habitat and characteristics of this rare species from Bahia in Brazil
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia celata Ehlers & Lautner, a new species from Oaxaca, Mexico
Manfred Kretz: The holy mountain of San Mateo Peñasco (Oaxaca, Mexico), habitat of the recently described Tillandsia penascoensis with a report on its discovery
Frank Hase: Tillandsia dorotheehaseae Hase, a new species from Azuay in Ecuador
Dieter Biletzke: Parque National del Este, a not only botanicaly interesting destination in the Dominican Republic
Jürgen Röth: Canistropsis seidelii var. welteri A. Seidel ex Roeth, a new variety from the coastal forests near São Paulo in Brazil
Cláudio Coelho de Paula & Otávio Batista de Castro Ribero: Dynastor darius Fabricius (1975), a pest for cultivated bromeliads - the caterpillar of this butterfly eats the leaves of the bromeliad, a report from the region of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Frank Hase: Remarks on the article by Manfred Zingler in Die Bromelie 2/2005 on Tillandsia complanata
Joachim Marx: Catopsis, culture of the species of this genus (part 2 in a tripartite article)
Angelika & Klaus Labude: In remembrance of Ulrich Baensch (1917-2006)
Uwe Scharf, Jeroen van der Steen & Cees Fransen: Ten years of the Dutch-Belgian Bromeliad Contact Group
NEWS5/2006Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 56(2), major articles:
Eric Gouda: Some notes on two lesser known Quesnelia species from Brazil (Q. seideliana and Q. lateralis)
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia huamenulaensis R. Ehlers, a new species from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia cucaensis Wittmack, a review and resurrection of this species long regarded as a synonym of Tillandsia makoyana
Derek Butcher: Tillandsia Rio Hondo, clarification about this undescribed bromeliad from Guatemala, now given a cultivarname
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia nicolasensis R. Ehlers, a new species from the state of Jalisco, Mexico
Eline de Vos: Nutritional needs of Guzmania Ostara, showing and discussing the effects of different ratios, deficiencies and excess levels of nutrients on this cultivar from the Corn. Bak nursery
John Snedden: Structuring local orchid societies around member needs, a story reprinted from the Australian Orchid Review that is also applicable to bromeliads and bromeliad societies
Yuribia Vivas: The genus Guzmania in Venezuela, an evaluation of the species of this genus in that country
Andrew Flower: Testing coconut husk fibre in a potting mix for bromeliads
UPDATE5/2006Lists: New versions of all lists
NEWS4/2006Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 56(1), major articles:
Leo Dijkgraaf: In quest of Tillandsia tectorum in Ecuador, a travel report
Bruce McCoy: Gaining local media attention, a "how-to" for bromeliad societies
Karen Andreas: Michael's Bromeliads thrive on First Dirt Road, a nursery in Florida
Andrew Flower: In the doghouse again, about the quality of water for bromeliads
Kerry Booth Tate: Excess Claret at Christmas, a bromeliad story about cultivar Guzmania Claret
Alan Cliffe: A New Zealand perspective on bromeliads XIII, a conference held October 2005 in Brisbane, Australia, with participation of a large "Kiwi" contingent
Pierre Ibisch: A conservation corner: bromeliads under fire, a comprehensive overview of conservation issues relating to bromeliads
Elton Leme: A new Lymania species from Bahia, Brazil : Lymania languida Leme
NEWS4/2006Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 55(6), major articles:
Herb Plever: Proliferating pups, about viviparous bromeliads
Tammy Marks: Wandering through Big Cypress Preserve in Florida, a walk in the swamps looking for bromeliads
Chester Skotak jr.: Bromeliads on coins, a Vriesea on a 1861 Middle American coin
Theresa Bert: Living in the understory with Canistrum and Canistropsis, habitat and culture of these Brazilian bromeliads
Bruce Holst: Bromeliad catnip ?, the housecat likes the perfumed flowers of Tillandsia monadelpha
Thorsten Krömer, Adolfo Espejo, Ana López-Ferrari & Amparo Acebey: The presence of Werauhia nutans in Mexico
NEWS3/2006Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 55(5), major articles:
Cláudio Coelho de Paula & Elidio Armando Exposto Guarçoni: Vriesea oligantha, an obligate epiphyte growing exclusively on plants of the family Velloziaceae in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Marcel Lecoufle: Lamarck's Dictionnaire de Botanique, two plates with bromeliaddrawings by Redouté from this French 18th century encyclopaedia
Bob Reilly: The case of fading variegation, occuring in the leaves of Vriesea saundersii
Ken Marks: New Orleans in the cross hairs, two reprints of articles from 1975 about bromeliad cultivation in this hurricane plagued region
Jason Grant & Walter Till: Report on the Bromeliaceae Symposium at the 17th International Botanical Congress
Derek Butcher: Aechmea serrata, a problem with the correct identification of this species
Leo Dijkgraaf: The Urubamba river valley, revisited; a travelreport from Peru, continued from JBS 55(1)
Theresa Bert: Living large with Alcantarea, the culture of some large species of this Brazilian genus
Rodolfo Antônio de Figueiredo: Reproductive aspects of sympatric bromeliads in Southeastern Brazil, flowering time and pollinaters of four bromeliadspecies
Mulford Foster: How to recognize a Guzmania (reprint from 1952)
Herb Plever: Pitcairnia tabuliformis: blooming plants of 14 inches, with strong fertilizing in 17 months growing from 3/8 inch tissue culture plants
Harry Luther: Introducing Tillandsia exserta
NEWS1/2006Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 55(4), major articles:
Cláudio Coelho de Paula & Renato Ramos da Silva: Bromeliaceae of Ilha Feia, an island at the Brazilian coast near Rio de Janeiro state
Elton Leme: Studies on Orthophytum part III, with descriptions of three new species: O. riocontense Leme, O. rubiginosum Leme and O. lanuginosum Leme & Paula
Leo Dijkgraaf: Two unidentified Puya species from Peru, one pictured at the Colca Canyon north of Arequipa, the other at Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom
Bob Reilly: Influence of grey-leaved Tillandsia species in hybrid crosses
Elton Leme: Studies on Orthophytum part IV, with descriptions of two new species: O. macroflorum Leme & M. Machado and O. schulzianum Leme & M. Machado
Ron Parkhurst: Hawaiians love bromeliads !, about the impact of bromeliads on this island
Derek Butcher: The pineapple, taxonomical changes in the genus Ananas as published in a book from 2003, with consequences for cultivar names
NEWS12/2005Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 3/2005, major articles:
Pierre Braun & Eddie Esteves Pereira: Bromelia braunii, the discovery in Central Brazil of this species, with a description of the plant and its protection mechanism, also some cultivation experiences
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia lagunaensis Ehlers, a new species from Oaxaca, Mexico
Renate Ehlers: Observations on flowercolor and flowerdevelopment with Tillandsias
Lieselotte Hromadnik: Tillandsia rosacea L. Hromadnik & W. Till, a new species related to Tillandsia didisticha from the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Joachim Marx: Catopsis, morphology and an overview of the species of this genus
Pierre Ibisch, Daud Rafiqpoor & Wilhelm Barthlott: A life for plants: in remembrance of Elvira Gross (1954-2005)
Matthias Lieber & Joachim Marx: Cultivating bromeliads in a terrarium and in a show-case
NEWS12/2005 Die Bromelie Sonderheft 5: A special issue about the Tillandsia tectorum complex has been published by the Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft, text and descriptions by Lieselotte Hromadnik of the following new taxa:
T. tectorum var. globosa, T. tectorum var. viridula,
T. tectorum var. tectorum f. gigantea, T. heteromorpha var. rauhii,
T. lithophila, T. chusgonensis, T. tomekii, T. stellifera, T. malyi and T. oblivata
(more information on the DBG-website)
NEWS12/2005Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 55(3), major articles:
Roberto Vásquez & Pierre Ibisch: Pitcairnia cantuoides, a new species from the inter-Andean valleys of Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Bruce McCoy: Costa Rica: a bromeliad adventure, a travel report
Dutch Vandervort: Fascicularia bicolor, pictures and a small story
Geoff Lawn: Darkest delights, about bromeliads with dark leaves containing anthocyanic pigments
Harry Luther: Notes on the genus Deinacanthon
Ron Parkhurst: The medicine man, the discovery of two enzymes in the pineapple that may lead to a new kind of cancer curing drug
Lucia Hechavarria Schwesinger: Tillandsia canescens, a rare species from the Greater Antilles pictured and described
UPDATE10/2005Slideshow added to the Menu
NEWS9/2005Vidalia v.2 n.2, july-december 2004 (see NEWS 4/2004 about this journal) contents:
Roberto Vásquez & Pierre Ibisch: Pitcairnia platystemon Mez and Pitcairnia chiquitana R. Vásquez & P. Ibisch (a new species), two related species from the Chiquitano Mountains, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Rachel Schmidt & Gregory Brown: leaf anatomy in Bromeliaceae subfamily Bromelioideae - pt.I Historical Perspectives
Jason Grant: new combinations and names in Andean Pitcairnia, Tillandsia and Werauhia
Teresia Strehl: new species of Bromeliaceae in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil : Dyckia julianae T. Strehl, Dyckia domfelicianensis T. Strehl, Dyckia rigida T. Strehl and Tillandsia rohdenardini T. Strehl
Harry Luther & Karen Norton: a colorful new species of Hohenbergia from Bahia, Brazil : Hohenbergia lemei H. Luther & K. Norton
Walter Till: an unusual new species of Deuterocohnia from Bolivia : Deuterocohnia pedicellata W. Till
Christina Ariani et al.: the negative effect of fire on populations of three bromeliad species at a restinga habitat in the southern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Carlos Rocha et al.: habitat disturbance in the Brazilian coastal sand dune vegetation and related richness and diversity of bromeliad species
NEWS9/2005Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 55(2), major articles:
Virginia Guess & Robert Guess: the Hechtia rosea complex: an example from Chiapas, Mexico
Derek Butcher: an up-to-date list of bi-generics (also called nothogenera), hybrids between a plant from one genus and a plant from another genus and an article on bromeliad databases available on Internet via the FCBS-website
Herb Plever: using fertilizer with good light conditions in order to get fast growing plants
Sue Gardner-Sill: announcement of a Tillandsia symposium at the World Bromeliad Conference in San Diego, june 2006
Dylan Wade & Gregory Brown: flower ovary morphology in taxonomy in the subfamily Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae)
Bob Reilly: growing Pitcairnia's and Pepinia's in Australia
Ron Parkhurst: bromeliad sculptures, a form of art
Robert Kopfstein: the curative power of bromeliads, Hechtia glomerata used for medicinal purposes
Bruno Rezende Silva: two new species of Vriesea from southeastern Brazil: Vriesea fontourae B. R. Silva and Vriesea revoluta B. R. Silva
Maria Solange Dutra da Cruz et al.: leaf anatomy of Hohenbergia ramageana from restinga habitat in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
NEWS9/2005Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2/2005, major articles:
Roberto Vásquez & Pierre Ibisch: Puya elviragrossiae R. Vásquez & P. L. Ibisch, a new species from the dry inter-Andean valleys of Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia zaragozaensis Ehlers, a new epilithic species from Est. Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Lieselotte Hromadnik: Tillandsia rosarioae, a new epilithic species from Dept. Salsa, Argentina
Matthias Lieber: culture of bromeliads in a plant show-case (continued from Die Bromelie 1/2005)
Valentin Bonciulescu: diverse useful (edible and medicinal) bromeliads
Lieselotte Hromadnik: report on the status of one of the protected Tillandsia-species (in the treaty of CITES App.2), Tillandsia xerographica in habitat and in cultivation in Guatemala
Manfred Zingler: the variation in Tillandsia complanata in Ecuador
Lieselotte Hromadnik & Andreas Böker: announcement of a special issue about the Tillandsia tectorum complex, to be published in december 2005
UPDATE7/2005Travels: Peru-C (Colca Canyon) added; photos added to other chapters of Peru
UPDATE6/2005Travels: Ecuador-E (south of Cuenca) added; photos added to other chapters of Ecuador
NEWS6/2005Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 55(1), major articles:
Leo Dijkgraaf: bromeliads in a Sacred Valley, a report on bromeliads found in the valley of the river Urubamba near Cuzco, Peru
Derek Butcher: Aechmea 'Morgana' and other cultivars of Aechmea fasciata, with observations on spineless Aechmea's by Chester Skotak
Bob Reilly: points of interest when importing bromeliads into Australia
Elton Leme: three new miscellaneous species of Bromeliaceae from Bahia, Brazil:
Aechmea laevigata Leme, Quesnelia dubia Leme and Vriesea blackburniana Leme
Virginia Guess & Robert Guess: Tillandsia x cuchnichim R. Guess & V. Guess, a natural hybrid ( T. eizii x T. carlsoniae) from Chiapas, Mexico
Richard Evans Schultes: Navia: an ancient and extraordinary bromeliad genus, a reprint of an article from 50 years ago
Bruce Holst: not a Navia, not even a bromeliad ; the story about Aratitiyopea lopezii, a species discovered in southern Venezuela in 1948 and initially named Navia lopezii
NEWS5/2005Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 1/2005, major articles:
Andreas Gröger: granite outcrops (inselbergs) in Venezuelan Guayana and their bromeliad vegetation
Pierre Braun & Eddie Esteves Pereira: remarks on the discovery and collection sites in Minas Gerais and Bahia (Brazil) of Orthophytum toscanoi
Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia zacualpanensis Ehlers & Wülfinghoff, a new species from Mexico
Petra Hensel & Uwe Scharf: remarks and cultural information on Tillandsia thyrsigera
Lieselotte Hromadnik & Renate Ehlers: Tillandsia cardenasii major, a new and larger variety of this Bolivian species
Uwe Scharf: second and last part of a travel report from Surinam, Guyana and French Guiana with focus on bromeliads
Frank Hase: culture of Vriesea strobelii from Ecuador
Manfred Zingler: parasites encountered in bromeliads
Matthias Lieber: culture of bromeliads in a plant show-case (continued from an article in Die Bromelie 3/2004)
NEWS4/2005Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 54(6), major articles:
Thorsten Krömer & Michael Kessler: a biological survey of the Cordillera Mosetenes, a little explored humid region at 1200-2000 m. altitude in the department of Cochabamba, Bolivia
Leo Dijkgraaf: bromeliad-spotting from a train, the trainride from Riobamba to Alausí, province Chimborazo, along the Andes in Ecuador
Ana Paula Gelli de Faria & Tânia Wendt: the real identity of Aechmea turbinocalyx, with an amended description
NEWS4/2005New book "Bromeliaceae of Ecuador Part 2, Pitcairnioideae"
by José M. Manzanares. More information and ordering: for Europe and outside Europe.
UPDATE4/2005Lists: New versions of all lists
NEWS2/2005Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 54(5), major articles:
Karen Andreas: report on the World Bromeliad Conference that has been held in Chicago
Len Colgan: a travel report from Bolivia, searching for bromeliads from Santa Cruz to Cochabamba and the southern yungas
Georg Zizka & Patricio Novoa: the genus Ochagavia, its conservation status, habitat and distribution in Chile and the cultivation in Europe
Thorsten Krömer: diversity and ecology of epiphytic bromeliads at different altitudes in the Yungas of Bolivia
Moyna Prince: a tour in Costa Rica, birdwatching and visiting the Wilson Garden and a bromeliad nursery
Ken Marks: keeping bromeliads outdoors in Florida with hurricanes passing over
Jason Grant: report on bromeliads at a symposium on monocots in Ontario, California
Roberto Santos, Maria Almeida & Maria Solange: Aechmea lingulata as an epiphyte in tabuleiro woodland, northeastern Brazil
NEWS1/2005Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 3/2004, major articles:
Pierre Braun & Eddie Esteves Pereira: the true collection site of Dyckia goehringii, in western Brazil
Timm Stolten: experiences with the cultivation of Dyckia goehringii
Uwe Scharf: a travel report from Surinam, Guyana and (French) Guyane
Renate Ehlers: the description of a natural hybrid from Costa Rica,
Tillandsia x van-den-bergii Ehlers & Hase (T. variabilis x T. incurva)
Matthias Lieber: constructing a plant show-case for bromeliads
Manfred Zingler: a strange Tillandsia found near Loja, Ecuador
Marilú Castillo: searching for Werauhia's in Panama, a travel report
NEWS1/2005Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 54(4), major articles:
Ana Gelli de Faria, Tânia Wendt & Gregory Brown: phylogenetic relationships of Aechmea and related genera in subfamily Bromelioideae (with many small photos of species)
Roberto Santos et al.: biogeography and conservation of a tarantula (spider) living in bromeliads in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Bob Reilly: rapid vegetative propagation of Alcantarea's by means of harvesting and potting the 'adventitious' offsets
Lucia Hechavarria Schwesinger: Guzmania monostachia and its varieties at the Alturas de Banao Ecologial Reserve, Central Cuba
Francisco Oliva-Esteve: Mérida (Venezuela), city of bromeliads
Luiz Nevares de Carvalho: travels to the south of Bahia State, Brazil
Mary Gregory: her paintings of bromeliads
Bruce Holst: a moisty airconditioning system for montane plants, Atlanta Botanical Garden
Derek Butcher: articles on Vriesea 'Brentwood' and on plant patents and plant breeding
Jeffrey Kent: a list of bromeliads endangered in habitat that are available in horticulture
Albert Roguenant & Aline Raynal-Roques: Tillandsia incarnata margaritacea, a new variety with white flowers from Ecuador
Elton Leme: Pitcairnia nortefluminensis, a new species from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ken Marks: the present day commercial success of Tillandsia cyanea and a story from 1956 about collecting this plant in the wild in Ecuador
UPDATE12/2004Lists: New versions of all lists
NEWS12/2004Edition 9 of An alphabetical list of Bromeliad Binomials by Harry Luther has been published. It lists all validly published taxa accepted at the Bromeliad Identification Center (july 2004), for more information see the website of the Bromeliad Society International
UPDATE10/2004Travels: Peru-B (Urubamba valley), Bolivia-C (Potosí) and Bolivia-D (Sucre) added; Bolivia-B (Puya raimondii) expanded
NEWS10/2004Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 54(3), major articles:
Roberto Vásquez: Puya ibischii Vásquez, a new species from Cochabamba, Bolivia
Dorothy Tuthill, Josh Pomeroy & Gregory Brown: water quality (temperature, pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen) of some bromeliad tanks in Brazil
Ivón Ramírez et al.: part 4 in portraits of Bromeliaceae from the Mexican Yucatan peninsula, Tillandsia dasyliriifolia and its taxonomy and reproductive biology
Maurice de Proft & Ine Vervaeke: flower biology and fertilization of Aechmea fasciata, pollination and pollen tube growth in vitro and in vivo
Derek Butcher: a short story on Aechmea perforata, a large plant of subgenus Chevaliera
UPDATE9/2004Lists: New version of Bromeliad Picture Index.
There is also a new list called New species 2000+ with the names of new and renamed species and varieties published from the year 2000 up to the present, followed by new synonyms from that period
UPDATE8/2004Links: Many links added
NEWS8/2004Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 54(2), major articles:
Andrew Steens: cultural experiences with Aechmeas of the subgenus Ortgiesia
Renate Ehlers & Len Colgan: Tillandsia rubia Ehlers & Colgan, description of a species from Bolivia, obtained via the nursery of Karel Knize in Lima, Peru
Bob Reilly: growing small grey-leafed Tillandsias
Geoff Lawn: an overview of rights and patents of plant breeders (Australia, Europe, USA)
Elton Leme: two new species in studies of Orthophytum part 2, Orthophytum heleniceae Leme and Orthophytum zanonii Leme
Harry Luther: a short story on Aechmea azurea
Herb Plever: an overview of bromeliad nurseries from 1960 to date, raising the question 'where have all the nurseries gone ?'
Derek Butcher: the bigeneric Androlaechmea 'O'Rourke'
NEWS8/2004Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 2/2004, major articles:
Dieter Biletzke: a travel report on the region of Las Guanas in northeastern Cuba, a refuge for endemic plants and animals
Renate Ehlers & Jürgen Lautner: the description and the story behind the discovery of a new species from Guatemala, Tillandsia kretzii Ehlers & Lautner
Inka Montero: the bromeliad collection of the Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza in Bolivia, with an appeal for financial support for its conservation
Manfred Zingler: cultural notes on Tillandsia biflora
Frank Hase: cultural notes on Vriesea petraea
Frank Hase & Frank Höpfel: announcement of a meeting in memory of Dr. Walter Richter (1904-1997), foremost German horticulturist and writer on orchids and bromeliads
Wolfgang Polka: cultivating Tillandsias in the home
Andreas Böker: bromeliadculture for starters (continuation)
NEWS7/2004Vidalia v.2 n.1, january-june 2004 (see NEWS 4/2004 about this journal) contents:
Elton Leme & Gregory Brown: four new lithophytic Vrieseas from the southeast of Brazil,
Vriesea harrylutheri Leme & G. Brown, Vriesea fontellana Leme & G. Brown,
Vriesea croceana Leme & G. Brown and Vriesea gastiniana Leme & G. Brown
Leonardo Carneiro & Elisabeth Mansur: In vitro methodes to be used for the conservation of Bromeliaceae
Elton Leme & Cláudio Paula: two new species from Brazil,
Hohenbergia flava Leme & Paula and Vriesea longistaminea Paula & Leme
Elisângela Almeida et al.: floral visitors of Tillandsia stricta at Restinga de Jurubatiba in the state of Rio de Janeiro
José Manzanares: two new species from Ecuador, Aechmea koesteri Manzanares and Guzmania lemeana Manzanares, and one from Peru, Puya mucronata Manzanares
George Baracho & José Siqueira: a new species from the northeast of Brazil,
Orthophytum jabrense G.S. Baracho & J.A. Siqueira
Carlos Rocha et al.: the conservation of Bromeliaceae in order to preserve the biological diversity of ecosystems
NEWS5/2004Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 54(1), some articles:
Claudia Hornung-Leoni & Victoria Sosa: the use of Puya raimondii by inhabitants of the Andes in Peru (for consumption by humans and animals, ceremonial use, source for fuel and for construction purposes)
Michael Barfuss, Mary Samuel & Walter Till: an update on the ongoing research for molecular data (phylogeny) as a means to classify bromeliads, in this case of the subfamily Tillandsioideae, for the time being resulting in a rename for Tillandsia insignis (Mez) Smith & Pittendrigh in Werauhia insignis (Mez) Till, Barfuss & Samuel
Dorothy Tuthill & Gregory Brown: a report on fungi living in and on the leaves of bromeliads
Elton Leme: the first part in a new series on the endemic Brazilian genus Orthophytum, introducing the new species Orthophytum horridum Leme and a new status for Orthophytum fosterianum estevesii Rauh, being taken out of the synonymy of Orthophytum sucrei and now named Orthophytum estevesii (Rauh) Leme
NEWS5/2004Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 1/2004, some articles:
Thorsten Krömer: biological exploration of the Cordillera Mosetenes in Bolivia
Renate Ehlers: a newly described species, Tillandsia penascoensis Ehlers & Lautner from Oaxaca state in Mexico
Roberto Vásquez & Pierre Ibisch: two new Puyas from the south of Bolivia, Puya lokischmidtiae Vásquez & Ibisch and Puya erlenbachiana Ibisch & Vásquez
NEWS4/2004Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 53(6), some articles:
Ronald Cave et al.: the exploration for parasitoids (this means mainly wasps and flies which are in their larval stadium parasetic in a for the host deadly way) to be used in the struggle against bromeliad-eating weevils of the genus Metamasius. The geographical areas where bromeliads are affected by the larvae of the weevils include Florida and parts of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
Roberto Santos et al.: the scorpion Tityus neglectus as occupant of water-holding reservoirs between the leaves of terrestrial bromeliads (Aechmea, Hohenbergia) in Brazil
Harry Luther: misnamed bromeliads, Aechmea candida
Ana Rousse: my life with bromeliads
Gaby Teufel-Kyriss: Costa Rica, the cradle of a new pineapple from the nursery of Chester Skotak (reprinted from the Tico Times)
NEWS4/2004A new journal dedicated to bromeliads has seen the light in Brazil.
It is called "Vidalia" and scheduled to be published twice a year by the Center for Research and Conservation of Bromeliaceae of the Federal University of Viçosa in the state of Minas Gerais (their website is included in Menu/Links). Articles are either in English, Spanish or Portuguese. In the first issue v.1 n.1 (july-december 2003, 62 pages) many new species are described and illustrated:
New species from Brazil: Alcantarea heloisae J.R. Grant,
Bromelia braunii Leme & E. Esteves, Bromelia lindevaldae Leme & E. Esteves,
Bromelia minima Leme & E. Esteves, Dyckia paucispina Leme & E. Esteves,
Orthophytum grossiorum Leme & Paula, Pitcairnia buscalionii W. Till.
Note: there is a superb Brazilian website on nature (by Eddie Esteves) where many bromeliads from the "cerrado" (a large area on the central plateau) are pictured, including some of these new ones.
New from Bolivia: Deuterocohnia gableana Vásquez & Ibisch and
the subspecies Deuterocohnia scapigera ssp. sanctae-crucis Vásquez & Ibisch.
Other articles:
Rafaela Forzza et al.: the conservation status of the Brazilian genus Encholirium
Claudio C. de Paula et al.: the use of Salvinia auriculata as part of substrate for bromeliads
Helenice Mercier & Catarina Nievola: strategies of multiplication in vitro of bromeliads
UPDATE3/2004 Domain-name  http://www.bromtravels.nl  acquired for this website
NEWS2/2004Journal of the Bromeliad Society International 53(5), some articles:
Simon Pierce: photosynthesis of plants with variegated leaves
Dorothy Tuthill & Gregory Brown: use of genetical analyses in the quest for a natural classification scheme (taxonomic categories)
Walter Till & Jason Grant: new species Tillandsia francisci W. Till & J.R. Grant (from the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela)
Harry Luther: short story on Aechmea guaratubensis
Michael Balke: diving beetles (family Dytiscidae) in bromeliads
James Burgess et al.: observations of a beetle herbivore on Aechmea nallyi in Peru
Bob Reilly: growing grey-leafed Tillandsias in pots
Herb Plever: the arsenal of tools and equipment for the bromeliad hobbyist in order to keep his plants in optimal condition
Derek Butcher: cultivar name 'Xavante' given to a Aechmea nudicaulis known as the variety 'rubra'
NEWS1/2004Die Bromelie (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft) 3/2003, some articles:
Thorsten Krömer: pollination by bats of Guzmanias in Bolivia
Renate Ehlers: new species Tillandsia sangii Ehlers (Colombia)
Elvira Gross & Frank Hase: new species Tillandsia rudolfii Gross & Hase (Ecuador)
Joachim Marx: a description of flowering bromeliads in his private collection (Billbergia kuhlmannii, Guzmania multiflora, Hohenbergia leopoldo-horstii, Tillandsia yunckeri)
Valentin Bonciulescu: the secret of optimal nutrition
Andreas Böker: bromeliadculture for starters
UPDATE1/2004Travels: Guatemala, Mexico-C1 and C2 (Chiapas) added
UPDATE9/2003Website installed