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Bromeliad Cultivar Register (9318) 2013-06-12

xBILLNELIA ‘Sebastian Laruelle’ Morren? Hort. Leod. <1885

Hawkes mentions this cross in his 1959 Bromeliad Papers 1:53 as being unnamed and proposed the name xBillnelia 'Jack Roth' - however, 'Sebastian Laruelle' predates Hawkes and renders his proposed name invalid. See also Aechmea 'Pinegrove Lass'

Seed Parent: Billbergia viridiflora Pollen Parent: Quesnelia liboniana
BelgHort 35:251, BSI-ICBH-1979, JBS 33:72, ChevalierCat1942p55