''Billbergia vittata'' is a plant
species
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in the family
Bromeliaceae
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.
It is a tough hardy tubular shaped plant heavily festooned with silver trichomes in a distinctive banded pattern that boldly contrasts with the leaf pigments. The tube form is about 500 - 600mm high and retains a reservoir of water in the tube. The plant produces a brilliant red pink pendulous inflorescence with a series of small blue flowers, on whose nectar honey eaters such as the
Eastern Spinebill
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feed.
This species is
native
Native may refer to:
People
* '' Jus sanguinis'', nationality by blood
* '' Jus soli'', nationality by location of birth
* Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory
** Nat ...
to Brazil.
Cultivars
* ''Billbergia'' 'Bismark'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Breauteana'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Calophylla'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Cappei'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Carminea'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Charles Webb'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Choc Chill'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Collevii'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Colores'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Dojo Master'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Domingos Martins'
* ''Billbergia'' 'El Jefe'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Franz Antoine'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Globrite'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Grey Mist'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Herbaultii'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Highlight'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Hilda Ariza'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Intermedia'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Joliboisii'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Joseph Marechal'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Lawrence'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Leodiensis'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Lissom'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Magic Grace'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Marechalii'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Medowie Dusk'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Misty Pink'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Misty Steel'
* ''Billbergia'' 'My Pleasure'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Oberthueri'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Olive Wills'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Penumbra'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Purple Smoke'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Raffle Prize'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Ralph Graham French'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Red Smoke'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Rhedonensis'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Rosea'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Salmon Gum'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Salmonea'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Silver Sheen'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Smoke & Fire'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Storm'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Touch of Grey'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Turbo'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Ultrajactensis'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Vittato-Nutans'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Wind & Thunder'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Windtalker'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Wittmackiana'
* ''Billbergia'' 'Zebrina Cappeana'
* × ''Cryptbergia'' 'Hombre'
References
*
BSI Cultivar RegistryRetrieved 11 October 2009
vittata
Endemic flora of Brazil
Flora of the Atlantic Forest
Garden plants of South America
Taxa named by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
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