Potentially cold-hardy bromeliads

This list is taken largely from research carried out by a Dr Dale Jenkins and published in one of the US bromeliad society journals in 1998. He lists species that were subjected to 20°F, around -7°C, for several hours and showed little or no damage as a result.  Well, it is a starting point at least.

Aechmea blumenavii
Aechmea bromeliifolia and cv ‘Rubra’
Aechmea ‘Burgundy’
Aechmea calyculata
Aechmea caudata and vars eipperi and variegata
Aechmea comata
Aechmea ‘Covata’
Aechmea cylindrata
Aechmea distichantha and A.d.forma albiflora
Aechmea distichantha caudata x melanocera
Aechmea distichantha var schumbergeri
Aechmea distichantha x planerophlebia
Aechmea gamosepala
Aechmea kertesziae
Aechmea lamarchei
Aechmea ornata
Aechmea recurvata and vars benrathii and ortgiesii
Billbergia distachia and var maculata
Billbergia meyeri
Billbergia nutans
Billbergia pyramidalis and var striata
Billbergia ‘Santa Barbara’
Brocchia reducta
Bromelia balansae
Bromelia serra and B.s.variegata
Deuterocohnia meziana
Deuterocohnia schreiteri
Dyckia encholiriodes
Dyckia ferox
Dyckia fosteriana
Dyckia fosteriana x brevifolia
Dyckia ‘Lad Cutak’
Dyckia leptostachya
Dyckia maritima
Dyckia microcalyx
Dyckia ‘Naked Lady’
Dyckia rariflora
Dyckia remotiflora and vars angustior and montevidensis 
Dyckia ursina
Fascicularia bicolor
Facicularia pitcairnifolia
Hechtia marnier-lapostcllei
Hechtia mexicana
Hechtia stenopetala
Hechtia texensis
Neoregelia concentrica
Nidularium fulgens
Nidularium procerum
Nidularium regelioides
Ochagavia carnea
Puya alpestris
Puya assurgens
Puya berteroniana
Puya chilensis
Puya caerulea
Puya coriacea
Puya dyckioides
Puya ferruginea
Puya floccosa
Puya gracilis
Puya laxa
Puya macrura
Puya raimondii
Puya roezlii
Puya spathacea
Puya thomasiana
Puya venusta
Puya violacea
Puya wrightii
Quesnelia testudo
Tillandsia baileyi
Tillandsia fasciculata
Tillandsia grandis
Tillandsia ionantha
Tillandsia recurvata
Tillandsia tenuifolia
Tillandsia usneoides
Tillandsia utriculata
Vriesia atra
Vriesia barilletii
Vriesia bituminosa x saundersii
Vriesia ‘Black Beauty’
Vriesia carinata
Vriesia cocovadensis
Vriesia ensiformis and var bicolor
Vriesia ‘Flamme’
Vriesia flammea
Vriesia friburgensis and vars paludosa and tucumanensis
Vriesia gigantea
Vriesia incurvata
Vriesia lubersi
Vriesia ‘Lucille’
Vriesia ‘Mariae’
Vriesia phillipocoburgii
Vriesia platynema
Vriesia ‘Purple Cockatoo’
Vriesia ‘Purple Pendant’
Vriesia ‘Rex’
Vriesia rodigasiana
Vriesia ‘Rosa Morena’
Vriesia saundersii
Vriesia scalaris
Vriesia schwackiana
Vriesia ‘Seminole Chief’
Vriesia simplex
Vriesia vagans
Vriesia ‘Velma Wurthmann’
which I think you will agree is a lot of bromeliads.

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