Aechmea setigera HONDURAS with broad rose-red bracts and

with broad rose-red bracts and whitish ovaries with greenish

A small hybrid from Australia

Insects visiting this species become trapped and drown in the water of the tank

A beautiful cross of chiapensis x botterii

The inflorescence is a scape to about 4 inches long

Aechmea setigera HONDURAS with broad rose-red bracts andA denizen of the Amazon forests of Venezuela to Bolivia where it forms colonies on exposed trees and becomes home to a variety of local wildlife. The plants are rather large, growing to over 30 inches, somewhat bottle shaped at the base and exceedingly spiny. Long black spines decorate the leaf margins and the inflorescence, which is a rather cone shaped spike. A good, hardy landscape bromeliad.