Aechmea weberi VIPP 4-1-19 A purplish wash covers the

A purplish wash covers the leaves with good light and the center cup flushes purplish at anthesis

The 'Gentleman Jim' of Dyckias

This clone has something of a history

and is much more heavily branched than tricolor

Aechmea weberi VIPP 4-1-19 A purplish wash covers theAn enigmatic species originally described as a Nidularium (E. Pereira & Leme, Bradea 4 (32) but later reassigned to Aechmea in the publication Canistrum: Bromeliads of the Atlantic Forest in 1997. It is considered to be part of the "southern Bahia complex" of Aechmeas which show characteristics of both genera and other special taxonomic irregularities. No doubt this will all be revisited again in the future. This species is native to the Atlantic