Hi Kristi, Sorry that it took me so long to respond. I knew that I had seen something similar to your Gervase's anatomical abnormality on the Landspro Amaryllis/Hippeastrum Forum, but it took me awhile to find the correct thread. At any rate, please check out the link below. What do you think? Best, Blanca Here is a link that might be useful: Elsamont ® the

Stephania, Cold for us,Hot for you. No winners. But our cold temps will leave us by Wednesday,at last,and be more Spring like,in the 60's. Not much to get too excited about,but better than 30 everyday. Too bad about your plant-burn,maybe you'll need to put up some high % shadecloth. That D.coximensis is a new one to me too.I've not heard of it until I saw it on YuccaDo's site.It'll be interesting to see what the bloom will be like. I'd like to try a cross if something else would blossom at the same time. I'll show a photo of the inflorescence when its ready. Stay cool ! ;^) Bob

Stephania, I got the N. burle marxii from Tropiflora 2, maybe even 3 years ago. I don't think it was in the "regular" catalog....it may have been a special offering or a collector's corner or something. Apparently, their plant(s) are HUGE as they were offering unrooted cuttings basically. My cutting was very beautifully aberrant, as you can see, it curves. I use this rock under it to support it. It was so big it required its own box. If it were stretched out it would be about 4 1/2 feet long. Possibly 5 ft. It is also VERY S-L-O-W. It has only just sprouted the pup you see in the container. I tried to get a photo of my little stand of the regular N. glaz but there is too much stuff in the way, I can't even get to it. A big Crocodile Fern, yellow variegated Monstera and some other stuff have really grown up in front of it. I have maybe 6 plants in the stand, ranging in height from about 8 inches to maybe 12-13 inches. I would have more but I sold some of these on eBay a year or so ago.

@(^_^)@ Thanks friends Nev, that why I could not resist loving them! Oh my...Cache, you have given me a good idea to cross it with Crypt. Ha Ha.. Actually, the mother nature is always wondering. While I visited South Africa years ago the guide told me that "Cape Dassie" (Rock Hyrax) -a little cute Guinea Pig-like mammal- is an elephan relative! Bromelia and Cryptanthus might be closer than we though. Fortunately, I'm in tropical zone, so there is no low temp. problem here. I use the same mix to grow all my xeric brom... : 2 parts of small pellet Indonesian pumice : 2 parts of perlite : 1 part of garden soil (mix of loam with leaf-mould) Though Crypt. warasii seem to be a xeric type, but I found most Crypt. including Crypt. warasii need more shade than those tough Bromelia. I've kept my Crypt. under big tree where receive 50% morning sun for 4-5 hours. I water my Crypt. nearly every day and feed them with "Osmocote" While these tough guys, Bromelia, Encholirium and others spiney's do enjoy nearly a whole day direct tropical sun. Hi Lisa, this guy has the same size of ordinary Neos, 1.5 foot in diam. HDD told me that normally it will turn pinky-bronze in your cold and imagine that if it got variegated Ha ha...