| Scientific Name: | Guzmania lingulata |
| Common Name: | scarlet star, vase plant |
| Family Name: | Bromeliaceae |
| Origin: | Central America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Epiphytic, Spreading, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Spiraled, Basal, Leathery, Lustrous, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Corymb, Yellow, Red, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves linear, in basal rosette, up to 45cm long x 6cm wide; inflorescence is a corymb with many tiny white florets among dark red (or less commonly pink, orange, or yellow) leaf-like bracts spiraled up peduncle. | |