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Common name: Match Stick Plant, Gamos Bromeliad
Botanical name: Aechmea gamosepala Family: Bromeliaceae (pineapple family)
Aechmea are known for beautiful foliage, long lasting color and vivid
berry-like fruit. These plants can adapt and grow on a variety of surfaces
such as on trees in full sunlight between 300 to 3,500 feet. Specimens have
been found in Peru having 3 foot long leaves, but the avarage is 1 foot in
length. Aechmea gamosepala has glabrous, 20-inch long, green leaves. The
flat-topped inflorescence has reddish-purple bracts and purple petals and red
sepals. The flowers look like pink match-sticks with bright blue heads.
| Photographed in
Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal |
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