Brilliant red on yellow-green leaves surround astonishing mauve flowers: a classic large ornamental bromeliad that offers a stunning summer display of colour.
Full sun during winter, dapple light to shade.
Dimensions: 1.2m across.
Flower: mauve flower rosette in the throat of the plant.
Foliage: a stripy red leaf with a lower profile than the Alcantarea’s.
Uses: Use where sight lines look directly down or in near-plan view to the planting, so the viewer appreciates the ultra-flat open rosettes with strong pink ‘halos’ around the central water-holding tanks. Also, mount long, impressive lines of these plants on ‘fallen’ tree trunks in full sun.