This bromeliad is unusual to grow in South Florida because it is very rare to find and very expensive to buy, if you find it. In South F...Read Morelorida, this landscape-sized bromeliad becomes very large (to 36" across and tall) with very wide leaves (to 4-5"). With more sun, the leaves become burgundy; with more shade, purplish-green. Its leaves become mottled like Billbergia rosea (which is more vase-like, with a totally different bloom). It takes 3-5 years for this bromeliad to bloom in my landscape, following which it may produce one pup sometime in the next year. The inflorescence grows taller than the foliage and has pink bracts on a purplish scurfy stalk with blue-violet flowers that look like Neoregelia flowers, but larger.
This bromeliad is unusual to grow in South Florida because it is very rare to find and very expensive to buy, if you find it. In South F...Read More