This guy would like a name......





TIA..........

Billbergia for sure, but which one! There's a lot of species and hybrids, yours looks a little like Billbergia x windii so probably has similar parentage.

Here's a list to browse through.. the leaves on yours are broad and without spines which might help.

http://fcbs.org/pictures/Billb...

I found a Billbergia cultivar register, have fun!

Alegria looks close but the flowers on yours have all purple tepals.

http://registry.bsi.org/?genus...

Thanks....billbergia I knew, but as you say....which?...lol.

I call this one Queen's Tears. Proper name..no clue except for the billbergia part

The Billbergia I know as "Queens Tears" is B. nutans: Queen's Tears (Billbergia nutans) but that common name very well be for all Billbergia.

Yes, this one seems different from the large form of 'Queen's Tears' that I have. This is the large one I've always known as 'Queen's Tears' and I have the smaller form that I've known as 'Queen's Tears' also. I have a couple of these poor neglected guys that have been sitting in the same spot since we moved in here 15 years ago...in the same wooden tub even... and I'm pulling them over to the house today to clean them up and give them more love...lol..

Oops...that second pic is the blurry one...and it's the small form of 'Queen's Tears' that I have. The one I'm looking to ID has darker green leaves with horizontal silvery markings. I suppose there are tons of slightly different ones. He was given to me about 20-25 years ago...and has been in that same clay pot all that time.I think it's time he deserves a new, larger pot, huh?