Aechmea are known for beautiful foliage, long lasting color and vivid berry-like fruit. These plants can adapt and grow on a variety of surfaces such as on trees in full sunlight between 300 to 3,500 feet. Specimens have been found […]
Aechmea filicaulis ( Thread Bromeliad )
This open rosette shaped plant has glabrous, soft green leaves reaching a bronze tint if grown in full sun. The long lasting rosy red bracts have flowers of white, bearing blue berries. This plant should be grown where it can […]
Aechmea fasciata ( Urn Plant )
Aechmea are known for beautiful foliage, long lasting color and vivid berry-like fruit. These plants can adapt and grow on a variety of surfaces such as on trees in full sunlight between 300 to 3,500 feet. Specimens have been found […]
Aechmea distichantha ( Chantha Bromeliad )
Aechmea are known for beautiful foliage, long lasting color and vivid berry-like fruit. These plants can adapt and grow on a variety of surfaces such as on trees in full sunlight between 300 to 3,500 feet. Specimens have been found […]
Aechmea dealbata ( Whitish Bromeliad )
This plant is stoloniferous with a few 2 foot long, tubular, deep green leaves. The one foot tall, erect stalk ends in a 3- to 4-inch oblong spike. Brownish colored bracts are covered with white powder, while the flower petals […]
Aechmea cylindrata ( Cylinder Bromeliad )
Aechmea are known for beautiful foliage, long lasting color and vivid berry-like fruit. These plants can adapt and grow on a variety of surfaces such as on trees in full sunlight between 300 to 3,500 feet. Specimens have been found […]
Aechmea comata ( Tufted Bromeliad )
‘Comata’ features a brilliant orange and yellow inflorescence at the end of a long stem. The stiff, broad, blunt tipped, gray-green leaves grow about 24 inches in length and form a tubular rosette. Thrives on coastal rocks & dunes with […]
Aechmea chlorophylla ( Green Leafed Bromeliad )
‘Chlorophylla’ is both epiphytic and terrestrial at an elevation of 2,800 feet. Spreading teeth edge the white scale covered, green leaves. The whitish wool covered stalk is erect and produces slim, rose colored bracts that are massed underneath the inflorescence. […]
Aechmea caudata ( Tail Bromeliad )
Aechmea are known for beautiful foliage, long lasting color and vivid berry-like fruit. Found growing on trees in open pastures at 600 foot elevation in Southern Brazil, the Minas Gerais area. The stiff, curving green leaves of Aechmea caudata grow […]
Aechmea cariocae ( Carioca Bromeliad )
This plant has stiff, gray-green, recurving leaves edged with deep brown spines. The inflorescence is erect, with pink bracts and flowers with blue petals at the apex. It grows epiphytically on trees in rain forests between 300 and 2,500 feet.