| 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: | Part sun/part shade |
| 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; flowers clustered, violet, forming in the centre area formed between the pink-red "blushing leaves". | |