Scientific Name: Neoregelia carolinae
Common Name: blushing bromeliad
Family Name: Bromeliaceae
Origin: South America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Epiphytic, Open, Spreading
Form: Vase
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Indoor plant
Exposure:
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Succulent, Prickly, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Entire
Flowers: Flowers solitary, Violet, Aug-Sep
Fruit: Multiple fruit, Green, Oct-Nov
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, linear, leathery, shiny, margins entire, apex tip with spine, up to 30cm long x 6cm wide; florets clustered, violet, forming in the centre area formed between the pink-red "blushing leaves".