Billbergia Chlorosticta Bromeliad
Known to gardeners for many years as B. saundersii, this has slightly arching, narrow 1 1/2 ft (45cm) leaves of brownish green, with copious cream-white spotting and banding when grown in a good light.
It forms an upright rosette, from the center of which the slightly drooping flower spike is produced in May, with bright red stem bracts and a large panicle of red and violet flowers. Offsets grow quite close to the parent as in B. nutans and, like them, should flower after one season of growth.
November 12, 2007
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