Bruce Dunstan attended the inaugural Heliconias Peru meeting in November 2025 and travelled around the region looking at Heliconias, Bromeliads and other rainforest monocots.

Bruce is a Brisbane horticulturist who has worked in the local nursery industry for 42 years – 38 years of travelling with over 41 trips through 15 tropical countries pursuing his plant interests in heliconias, gingers, bromeliads, aroids and other rainforest monocots as well as an ever-expanding interest in other plant groups. Bruce has been involved in the early promotion and commercialisation of landscape bromeliads, including Alcantarea and Vriesea cultivars, since the early 2000s.

He has served on the board of the Heliconia Society International for 17 years and also on the Board of the Bromeliad Society of Queensland for 7 years.