Aechmea flavorosea Size:Offset with dark spines and a

with dark spines and a lovely branched panicle of pink to red berries

and the white margins become vivid pink-purple

The rosette is very full

The color of the inflorescence is still deep pink in good light and the flowers deep blue to purple and fragrant

Aechmea flavorosea Size:Offset with dark spines and aOur 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,