Identification: What is this plant?

Discussion in 'Indoor and Greenhouse Plants' started by griff666, Aug 20, 2009.

  1. griff666

    griff666 Member

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    Any help would be great I got it from a neighbor who moved away. I didn't even know it was going to bloom. Thanks, matt
     

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  2. tipularia

    tipularia Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Might be an urn plant, Aechmea fasciata
     
  3. joclyn

    joclyn Rising Contributor

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    i agree with tipularia - urn plant. it's a bromilead.
     
  4. Ron B

    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Keep the base filled with clean water. After the center rosette blooms it will collapse into a pile, to be replaced by the new rosettes already coming from the rootstock. In nature these cling to tree branches, slowly creeping over them. The death of flowered rosettes is thought to produce compost for the succeeding, not-yet-mature ones. Otherwise the plants live off of the micro-ecosystem inside their "tanks", these tiny pools being home to numbers of different kinds of small animals such as crabs, frogs, mosquitos and spiders that survive there instead of in or around the more dangerous and turbulent waters of rainforest rivers.
     

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