A small growing Aechema recurvata hybrid by Lisa Vinzant. Olive green with dark leaf tips that turn blue with age. Produces a short inflorescence of pink. Matures at 10 inches tall. Grows best in bright filtered light.

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A tissue culture hybrid of Aechmea chantinii x fasciata. The plant grows to 2 and 1/2 feet in a large green rosette shape with many spiny leaves lightly scurfed. The rosy pinkish-red bloom is long-lasting and stunning. 

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A rare plant from Brazil that grows in a large rosette to about three feet across. In good light the leaves are green, tinted with copper color and slightly banded. The inflorescence looks very much like that of Ae. pineliana, having a corn-cob shape and small, light blue flowers.

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Aechmea aquilega variegated  A beautifully variegated form of a large handsome species. This plant grows to about three feet tall with stiff leaves in an upright rosette. The inflorescence has clustered branches of yellow with pink bracts and is very colorful. However, the best part is the vividly variegated leaves which are light green with bold creamy white. This stunning form was found in Brazil.

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Another of the hardy caudata group, this one bearing a lovely orange branched inflorescence, with large yellow flowers. Grows to about 24 inches tall.

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A spectacular robust form of chantinii is green with silver banding and has bold creamy white stripes up the center of each leaf. The inflorescence has yellowish branches with bright orange-red bracts. A sensational plant.

Interesting and hardy, with foliage stiffly upright to 24 inches rather narrow with a terminal spine, green with distinctive silver banding. The inflorescence is a cluster of short pale branches and reddish bracts.

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This clone of the species was obtained by the late Wally Berg in Brazil. Compared to the 'normal' form of the species, this one's leaves are narrower and pointed at the tip. It has an overall bronze coloration and a typical mulfordii bloom; orange branches with red bracts. A good full sun landscape plant. Great landscape plant.

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An interesting and very compact Brazilian form. Leaves are green, well banded when young, very stiff, forming wide-leaved tubular, short, thick vases. Very decorative with yellow flowers and bright red scape bracts.

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A handsome, fairly large growing nudicaulis with an upright, tubular vase shape. The leaves are stiff, light green with light silvery bands on the outer leaves, the inner leaves being solid green. Excellent for mounting but makes nice hanging pot subject as well. Native to Trinidad.

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A nice form of this variable species which was collected by Berg and Anderson in Brazil. This form has stiff leaves, an upright, tubular shape, and the classic ’thumb-print’. The leaves are gray-green with silvery bands and the inflorescence is a compact cone with yellow flowers and bright red bracts.

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Aechmea nudicaulis v. cuspidata. This is from the widely variable nudicaulis group. A medium size plant growing to 12 to 16 inches tall. A narrow tube with a deep thumb print at the base of each leaf. The leaves are dark green with red near the base. The edges have large spines. 

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