Aechmea cucullata Size:Offset Develops an overall purple glaze

Develops an overall purple glaze over green and white

found in Costa Rica

silver over deep green in an arching rosette to nearly 3 feet tall

At anthesis red bands develop in the center of the plant

Aechmea cucullata Size:Offset Develops an overall purple glazeAn Ecuadorean Platyaechmea related to the chantinii group. The foliage is funnel form and uniformly pale green, up to 24 30 inches tall. The striking inflorescence has whitish to yellow branches and orange scape bracts. A perfectly lovely species. This plant occurs in the Amazon basin and forms great colonies high on the exposed trunks of palm and other tall trees, often fifty feet off the ground on limbless trunks. *VIPP plants are Offsets