Guzmania lingulata
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Guzmania lingulata var minor
Low-growing, often terrestrial notable for it's vivid red involucral bracts. Found from Guatemala to Colombia and northeastern Brazil.
Red form.
IKH Sydney 11/02, Red flowering form.
IKH Sydney 10/04, Red flowering form.

Orange form.
IKH Sydney 11/04, Orange flowering form. Red veins in leaf.

IKH Sydney 12/04.

Persimon form.
IKH Sydney 11/04, Persimon flowering form.
IKH Sydney 11/04, Persimon flowering form.

Ian Hook, from The Olive Branch, 11/05, Persimon form?
Ian Hook, from The Olive Branch, 11/05, Persimon form?

Guzmania lingulata var cardinalis
Ken Woods.

Guzmania lingulata Hybrid
Ken Woods.
(See also Guz. "Hybrid")

Updated 04/04/06