A 1-foot long cylindrical spike rises from the green foliage, bearing circular bracts of lilac-rose flowers. This plant can adapt and grow on a variety of surfaces such as the forest floor between rocks at the rivers edge. Native to […]
Aechmea germinyana ( Count Germiny Bromeliad )
This open rosette habit has leaves that reach up to 2 1/2 feet. Twenty to thirty vivid green leaves with red tinting at the base. The stalk rises above the foliage, bearing green bracts ending in a thick vivid red […]
Aechmea fosteriana ( Fosters Bromeliad )
This plant can adapt and grow on a variety of surfaces such as epiphytically on trees in the coastal forest and terrestrially on the sands of the seashore. It is 2 feet tall, tubular, with textured, erect, purple-brown dotted and […]
Aechmea fendleri ( Fendler Bromeliad )
Beautiful foliage, long lasting color and vivid berry-like fruit. Native to the area near Tovar, Venezula. This is an epiphytic plant whose natural environment is in the cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 4,500 feet. ‘Fendleri’ is a 3-foot, […]
Aechmea drakeana ( Drake Bromeliad )
The epiphytic and terrestrial plant grows in the Andes and in the forested valley at the 5-6,000 foot level. The 12 or more soft, undulating, green leaves have brown spines that are soft and grow to 2 feet in length, […]
Aechmea dichlamydea ( Lamy Bromeliad )
This plant grows as an epiphyte on a variety of surfaces such as on trees, forest floor, rocks, between 2,250-3,000 feet above sea-level. When in bloom this large plant can reach 3 feet tall and has gray green leaves 2 […]
Aechmea dactylina ( Finger Bromeliad )
This plant has 24 inch long stiff, green leaves with large, pointed spines. The pink to coral-red bracts and inconspicuous yellow flowers are borne on a 3 foot tall branched inflorescence. Plants are epiphytic in thick tidal forests and coastal […]
Aechmea conglomerata ( Clustered Bromeliad )
This plant has twelve to twenty glabrous, soft, green leaves that reach 1 to 1 1/2 feet in length and form an elegant rosette. The vivid red florescence is about 1 foot in height with flower clusters, in rounded shape, […]
Aechmea coelestis ( Sky Blue Bromeliad )
The inflorescence is pyramidal and compact, about 4 inches in length and has lavender-blue petals with rose bracts. The stiff, gray-green leaves grow about 18 inches in length and form a slim erect rosette. The plant grows between 18 and […]
Aechmea chantinii ( Chantinii 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 […]