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Over the last eighteen months or so (2006), this has been slowly taking over the pot plant market. I don't know who is producing them, but they are doing it on a grand scale. Excellent in flower, in the end I found one cheap enough to try. The plan at the moment is to leave it in the conservatory for the winter and see if it will take a touch of cold. It is possible that by winter I will have found out that it is really tender, in which case it will come indoors and look for a windowsill! It is being sold as BLUE RAIN but 'Del Mar' is the correct cultivar name. In the event, it was too tender for my conditions. The cultivar register for Bromeliad Society International says: "a name used by Deroose for 'Del Mar', Bromeliad, NZ Journal March 2008" Under 'Del Mar' it says: "Shown by Bullis Nursery at WBC 2002. Filed as US Patent # PP13421, Dec 24, 2002. Smaller plant with smaller inflorescence than reverse cross Aechmea 'Blue Tango'. Breeder says; Purple and dark red flower bracts whereas Ae. 'Blue Tango' has mostly blue purple flower bracts. See also Aechmea 'Blue Rain' (Invalid name). Country of origin: Florida USA Seed Parent: fendleri Pollen Parent: dichlamydea var. trinitensis Parentage, breeder, cross date and notes updated Sept 3, 2025 by BCR Registrar Graeme Barclay from: patents.justia.com/patent/PP13421 The Plant Patens says: "Inventor: Patricia Gomez Bullis, Princeton, FL (US) Assignee: Bullis Bromeliads, Inc., Princeton, FL (US) The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Aechmea plant, botanically known as Aechmea fendlerixAechmea dichlamydea trinitensis and referred to by the name Del Mar. The new Aechmea is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Princeton, Fla. The objective of the breeding program is to create new Aechmea cultivars with compact plant habit appropriate for container production, desirable inflorescence coloration and good postproduction longevity. The new Aechmea originated from a cross made by the Inventor in Princeton, Fla. in May, 1994, of an unidentified Selection of Aechmea fendleri, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with an unidentified selection of Aechmea dichlamydea trinitensis, not patented as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar Del Mar was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in Princeton, Fla., in September, 1996. " |
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