Encholirium horridum - Tropiflora
Encholirium horridum - Tropiflora
Encholirium horridum - Tropiflora
Encholirium horridum - Tropiflora
Encholirium horridum - Tropiflora
Encholirium horridum - Tropiflora
Encholirium horridum - Tropiflora
Encholirium horridum - Tropiflora

Encholirium horridum

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This is a spectacular, large-growing species, descended from plants grown from seed collected by Wally Berg on Pico do Fernando, Bahia, Brazil. The plants have hundreds of narrow, strap-like, spiny leaves at maturity, recurving downward to form a graceful ball-like shape. Encholirium species grow much like the genus Dyckia, enjoying water in the growing season and a rest in cooler weather.

Can grow in filtered light or full sun. This species is monocarpic or occasionally making one or two offsets. The bloom spike can reach 4 feet in height and branches out, the flowers are large for bromeliads, with green bracts and petals filled with a pungent, sticky fluid, possibly to attract pollinators; bats have been seen pollinating this plant.