Currently 20cm - This bright and hardy bromeliad is sure to bring happy thoughts to your garden, with burgundy leaves and greenish gold spots. Grown for its vibrant leaf colour, the flowers are tiny. It will form a bright clump of colour as new pups grow around the edges.
Very hardy and beautiful, bromeliads handle life differently than other plants. Most are epiphytic, their roots are little more than supports or hold-fasts. Their leaves do most of the work. The leaves form a tank to collect and hold moisture. These tanks also catch the leaves discarded by the trees towering over them. As the detritus decays, the bromeliad leaves absorb the nutrients. Bromeliads are adapted to making do with few resources and they do it very well.;