Aechmea flavorosea Size:Offset We first obtained this species

We first obtained this species from the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens with a accession number of SEL1982-0436

as all other former Abromeitiella species are green or greenish white

A beauty with the typical upright shape of a chantinii

green and white with good red bars and bands

Normally blooms only occur after forming a cluster of plants

Aechmea flavorosea Size:Offset We first obtained this speciesOur best clone of this very handsome and much sought rarity from the area of Santa Maria Madalena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This gem of the bromeliad world has rigid upright tubular growth and short stolons, not unlike an Ae. nudicaulis, but with strikingly silver banded leaves and a lovely inflorescence of pink to orange branches and yellow flowers similar to an Ae. fasciata. This is the excellent clone illustrated in the Journal of the BSI, vol. 30,