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| Aechmea fasciata | |
| "Urn Plant" | |
| LHBC 163 | |
| Family: Bromeliaceae | |
| Native to: Neotropics: southeastern Brazil. Epiphytic in tropical forests. | |
| EPIPHYTE. Related to the true pineapple. Like many members of the family Bromeliaceae, Aechmea has a rosette of stiff leaves with a "tank" in the center that collects water (and in the wild, organic debris). Leaves are covered with white peltate trichomes. | |
| Horticultural notes: Commonly cultivated as a house plant. Favored because of the extreme persistence of the inflorescence, which is made up most of stiff, spiny-margined bracts that retain a pink color for weeks after flowering. |
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