This is one of the most popular hybrids, with abut 20 narrow, glossy, wine-red leaves 1ft (30cm) long, slightly curving to form a small rosette.
Bromeliad Plant Care Blog
Probably the best known member of the genus is the urn plant, which forms an open rosette 2 ft (60cm) across of very stiff, grey-green, spine-edged leaves, banded with silver-grey.
This has a long cylindrical flower spike in June, up to 9 in (23cm) long and 2 in (5cm) in diameter, of rose-pink bracts enclosing pale blue flowers, which are followed by long-lasting pink berries.
This beautiful Amazonian species consists of an open rosette of about a dozen leaves, which are 2 in. (5cm) broad and 1ft (30cm) long, decorated with broad bands of green and white.
Wittrockia (wit-rock’ee-a) – Belonging to the Bromelioideae subfamily; growing in the southern coastal mountains of Brazil, nine species have so far been discovered and only two are seen in cultivation, Wittrockia smithii and Wittrockia superba.
