Aechmea leonard-kentiana X NEOMEA green with silver trichomes

green with silver trichomes

vase shaped plant with broad purple leaves banded in silver below

hardy species

The leaves have red concentric bands and the leaf margins have pronounced stiff spines

A single ‘Tarantello‘ is a presence of its own and doesn’t need to be in a clump to have that kind of gravity that only so few plants have

Aechmea leonard-kentiana X NEOMEA green with silver trichomesA large species from Bahia, Brazil that may superficially resemble a Hohnebergia and has close relatives in Aechmea, Portea and the now discontinued Streptocalyx. Long, strappy leaves in a full, open, 36 inch, somewhat bulbous based rosette, have serrate spines and a grey scurf. The inflorescence is on a tall scape with short , well spaced tripinnate branches forming a cylindrical, conical head. Scape bracts are green, and flowers dense and tiny with