Replies on: Casus Pro Diagnosi - Bromeliad Identification Page

36. Bromeliaceae from Tomas Kubicek     (Send your reply, using the form)

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• From: Tomas Kubicek (Wed, 24 Mar 2004 ): I would be glad if you could post these photographs of a bromeliad that I would like to identify to the Bromeliad Identification Page. This plant was given to a friend of mine from a botanical garden in Ireland, that is all I know about. The flowers do not seem to open more than those pictured.
• From: Eric Gouda (Wed, 24 Mar 2004 ): Nice color! I think it is close to Quesnelia seideliana. The floral-bracts seems to be subglabrous, which is lepidote in Q. seideliana and it does resembles Q.lateralis in this aspect which has the inflorescences lateral and not central as in your specimen.
• From: Charles Dills  (Wed, 24 Mar 2004 ): Looks like it has to be closely related to Q. siedeliana but I don't remember the colored bracts. Q. Lateralis is close also and does have colored bracts. Both of these have much darker blue petals in my experience. But I'm always suspicious of my plants....  
• From: Dutch Vandervort (25 Mar 2004 ): Comment was made that implied Quesnelia lateralis to always be lateral blooming and I have found it to sometimes bloom laterally, sometimes centrally and sometimes both on the same plant at the same time.  I have never used etherel or any other flower stimulator and I wonder if others growing in somewhat natural conditions have had the same experience.
• From: Eric Gouda (25 Mar 2004 ): If Q.laterales can flower both central and lateral, than I suppose Quesnelia lateralis is the right name for this plant
• From:  Walter Till (25 Mar 2004): I think it is Q. lateralis which can have both lateral AND central inflorescences!

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