Common name: Concentric Neoregelia
Botanical name: Neoregelia concentrica Family: Bromeliaceae (Pineapple family)
Concentric Neoregelia is a bromeliad native to Brazil. It develops like a
perennial herb. Growing it develops into a round-shape shrub. This plant
in the spring, summer, autumn, winter assumes a greenpink colouring. Plant
is medium in size and can reach 40 cm high, propagating by stout basal
rhizomes. Leaves 7-30 in a dense broadly funnelform rosette, 20-40 cm
long. Sheaths are large, broadly elliptic, entire. Leaf blades are
ligulate, broadly rounded and apiculate, 5-10 cm wide, wholly green or
with dark purple spots above or the inner leaves at times wholly purple,
usually densely serrate with stout black spines to 4 mm long. Flowers are
sunk in the dark purple center of the rosette, in a many-flowered cluster.
| Photographed in Gangtok, Sikkim. |
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