This huge genus of diverse bromeliads provides the grower with every colour and shape a gardener could dream of. There is an aechmea suitablefor every situation.

Most members are spiny plants but smooth ones are available and breeders select for the spineless trait. Some species are cold sensitive and others not suitable for full sun but most are forgiving garden subjects.

Below you will find a list of some of the Aechmeas we stock.

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Aechmea Bert Open upright vase shape with 10-15 matte-green leaves up to 16" long and 3" wide. Marked with irregular purplish-brown crossbanding and edged with heavy dark spines. Inflorescence is arching with a dense panicle of red bracts and yellow petals. Happiest as epiphyte or also as an unnamed variegate by 1994.

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Aechmea Big Stuff Well shaped Aechmea with glossy light green leaves on top and glossy deep red underneath. Reaches a span of 50cm. The tall flower spike carries purplish blue flowers, followed by long lasting red berries. Cold sensitive.

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Aechmea Chantinii Olive green leaves banded with silver. The flower spike has large drooping bracts of red, with a branched cluster of red and yellow flowers at the top. Absolutely stupendous.

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Aechmea Fosters Favorite Glossy foliage which is dark burgundy on both sides of the leaves. In higher light tinges of green will appear. Always looks glamorous with the long lasting dark berries held on a pendulous stem an added bonus.

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Aechmea Reginald A grey-green open rosette up to 50cms. diameter and as tall, sometimes heavily scurfed on upper and lower surfaces; almost spineless soft pliant arching leaves with central cream stripes or striations (medio-picta form), The reverse is maroon red. Summer-blooming, the erect compoundly-branched inflorescence is a red-stemmed panicle of globose (rounded) coral red berries and cornflower blue petals.