Aechmea brassicoides Size:Offset before the leaves

before the leaves

This one is a small to medium size plant

named by Bill Timm

Also goes by the nickname of ‘Masai Spurge’

it is nonetheless quite uncommon in collections

Aechmea brassicoides Size:Offset before the leavesThis native of the Guyanas and Suriname is one of those kinds of plants that will have you scratching your head in wonder. The center of the upright rosette of very stiff mottled green leaves forms an overlapping, hollow structure that in nature is believed by some to be an ant nest! If this is true, indeed, it is one of the most highly adapted ant plants in the bromeliad world. At anthesis, the bloom spike pierces the side of the structure and it