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Common name: Silver Vase Bromeliad, Urn Plant
Botanical name: Aechmea fasciata Family: Bromeliaceae
Silver vase is an epiphytic Bromeliad from Brazil. Aechmeas are among the
most beautiful of all Bromeliads for indoor decoration. Large, colorful blooms
rise high above the vase-shaped rosette of leaves.
These plants are definite eye catchers. The original plant is light to medium
green with silvery bands - a variegated form with white to cream stripes
running down the leaf is also available. The pink, spikey inflorescence lasts
for months; individual blooms are purple and last only a day.
After flowering, Bromeliads produce side shoots (offsets), which may be
removed while young and rooted for additional plants.
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