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billbergia

[ bil-bur-jee-uh, -juh ]

noun

  1. any bromeliad of the tropical American genus Billbergia, having stiff leaves and flowers with showy, variously colored bracts.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of billbergia1

1821; < New Latin, named after Gustaf Johan Billberg (1772–1844), Swedish botanist; -ia
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South Bay Bromeliad Associates members will be displaying their own bromeliads, including specimens of tillandsia, neoregelia, dyckia, vriesea, aechmea, billbergia and guzmanias.

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Several species are grown as hot-house plants for the bright colour of their flowers or flower-bracts, e.g. species of Tillandsia, Billbergia, Aechmea and others.

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Upright flowering plants,--Abutilons, browallias, calceolaria "Lincoln Park," begonias, bouvardias, euphorbias, scarlet sage, richardia or calla, heliotropes, fuchsias, Chinese hibiscus, jasmines, single petunias, swainsona, billbergia, freesias, geraniums, eupheas.

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