Amongst my many plant identification queries there are two that I would like to address here. It revolves around the problem when you are told your plant is wrongly identified but no suggestion is made as to its true identity. Most are reluctant to put Neoregelia not melanodonta or Neoregelia not punctatissima on the label. This can be solved by giving the plant a cultivar name!

Neoregelia punctatissima featured as a photograph by Moir in J. Brom. Soc.24: 197. 1974. Nobody has queried this photograph other than in Australia when Bill Morris wrote about it in Bromeletter 22(2): 8. 1984. Nobody bothered when Lyman Smith wrote in 1979 "Doubtfully in Cultivation". Nobody bothered...