Description | Aechmea nidularioides is a species bromeliad native to Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. |
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Plant Type | Indoor Foliage, Bromeliad |
Hardiness Zone | 10-11 |
Sunlight | bright to strong to bring out the color of the foliage |
Moisture | moist, high humidity |
Temperature | warm |
Flowers | The inflorescence is on top of a short stalk, cone shaped, with triangular red bracts and white flowers that raises above the rosette. |
Leaves | A wide spreading rosette of red-tinted, somewhat recurved, lance shaped leaves. |
Dimensions | 30 inch spread |
Propagation | division of pups |
Native Site | This species grows on trees in the tropical, hot humid rain forests of Amazonian Peru and Colombia. Found at (350, and 3,300-feet) above sea level. |