Aechmea skotakii VIPP 2-4-19 Large clusters of these plants

Large clusters of these plants weigh down the limbs of the local scrub-type vegetation

and have nice large spines along the margins

purple-tinted

As an epiphyte or saxicole

Back in 2010 Tropiflora employee Ray Lemieux crossed copanensis with fasciculata 'Tropiflora' and we have been growing out the seedlings ever since

Aechmea skotakii VIPP 2-4-19 Large clusters of these plantsAn apparent new species of what would have been a Streptocalyx, originally found by Chester Skotak in the Condor Mountains of Ecuador. As far as we are aware, the name skotakii for this species is still provisional. A large growing plant with an open rosette of rather spiny two inch wide leaves. The foliage is green, turning reddish with maturity. The bloom is a wide, slightly raised, disk like head, surrounded by flaming red bracts. We collected a