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Bromeliad Cultivar Register (17509) 2023-03-04

TILLANDSIA ‘Chaca Fire’ ? / Pamela Kiode-Hyatt* circa 2000

Mature, open, spreading large rosette to 65cm. diameter x 30cm. high. Many arching narrow, scurfed grey-green leaves, each tapering to a point. Erect, branched spike to 70cm. high with 7-9 paddles each with rosy red lower scape bracts merging to lime green upper portions and mauve petals. Accidental cross occurred at Birdrock Tropicals Nursery, California. From a seedling batch of selfed T. 'Chacalapa' emerged this distinctly different hybrid group of seedlings, from which clones later were separated and selected. Fasciculata Group. Reg. Doc. 3/2022 by Greg Aizlewood.
Country of origin: California USA

Seed Parent: Chacalapa Pollen Parent: fasciculata
Birdrock Tropicals Nursery, code TX504.