This semi-tubular plant has glabrous, green leaves with purple blunt tips. The yellow flowers and pink bracts are supported on pale rose stems above the foliage. Leaves seldom grow longer than 1 1/2 feet with 1 inch width. Plants can […]

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. Aechmea babusoides has a unique 3-foot high stemmed inflorescence […]

‘Araneosa’ has bright green leaves with dark brown spines along the edges. The leaves are glabrous vivid and green forming an open rosette. The tall stems and bracts bear bright, waxy, orange-red inflorescence and yellow petaled flowers. Plants can adapt […]

‘Augustifolia’ grows from a three to four feet in diameter. The semi-tubular narrow yellowish-green leaves are stiff and rose flushed to the tip. The inflorescence is erect and has red bracts with flowers of yellow. Both epiphyte and forest floor […]

‘Allenii’ grows from a few inches to 9 feet in diameter. Erect, gray-green leaves red 2 feet long and 2 inches wide. Scapes are sizable with noticiable bracts. The inflorescence is an erect spike of rose bracts with white or […]

Evergreen fern that can reach more than 6 inches tall and 8 inches wide. Leaves are triangular shaped, very broad and spreading attached to long black stalks. Color is mid-green and slightly glaucus underneath. Great groundcover for shaded area with […]

A large fern that enjoys warm conditions. The fronds are quite big and have a weeping habit, while the pinnules are wide and tend to overlap each other. The pinnules are lobed.

This weeping fern is quite small, rarely topping 12 inches in height. It does have large, lobed pinnules for its size arranged neatly on triangular weeping fronds. The weeping form of ‘Victoria’.

Erect, evergreen fern with many 3-pinnate fronds. Reaches 20 inches tall. Young fronds emerge rosy pink turning green with age. Fronds become crowded, rhomboidal segments. Best suited to temperatures above 45 degrees Fahrenheit, thus often used as a houseplant. It […]

This large fern has large down-facing pinnules on open fronds. The pinnules are cut and the stipes are erect. New growth will be pink. From Sri Lanka