Billbergia thyrsoidea
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Read about Billbergia thyrsoidea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Billbergia thyrsoidea, Mart. Lvs. 1-2 ft., broad-ligulate, spine- margined, concave on upper surface, green above and paler beneath, abruptly acuminate: n.-cluster shorter than Lvs., farinaceous, densely red-bracted; fls. numerous, bright red, petals reflexing. Brazil. B.M. 4756. J.F. 3, pi. 267.—Showy. Runs into several varieties, some of them with purple-tipped fls. (as vars. splendens and fastuosa, Andre, R.H. 1883:300). B. splendens, Hort., is evidently one of the forms. Species too near the next.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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