Bromeliad clone preservation project: a project initiated by the Bromeliad Society of South Florida.(Bromeliad Society International)

Journal of the Bromeliad Society | March 1, 2009 | Copyright

The BSSF has adopted the establisment of a project, still in the planning and development stages, aimed at identifying and preserving valuable older clones of species and cultivar bromeliads that are in danger of being lost in cultivation.--The following outline was exerpted from the original proposal by Nat DeLeon, Alan Herdon and Karl Green--Ed.

"... Some of the old clones have undoubtedly disappeared, but bromeliads are a remarkably hardy group of plants, and many of the older plants may still exist in the off corners of small (or large) collections. As time ...

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