Aechmea dactylina CRYPTANTHUS A very interesting and uncommon

A very interesting and uncommon form of the species

it has been in cultivation well over one hundred years

I guess you could say that it has a variegated

acutely triangular and very sharply pointed

Narrow silvery leaves grow strictly upright in a tight rosette to about 20 inches tall

Aechmea dactylina CRYPTANTHUS A very interesting and uncommonA handsome but seldom cultivated species from Central America and northern South America. Growth is mostly upright in a vase shape, with fairly stiff, heavily spined leaves that blush reddish in strong light. The inflorescence is a clustered head of whitish branches with rose bracts, very attractive.