Aechmea skotakii CM A colorful hybrid of (‘Milagro’

A colorful hybrid of (‘Milagro’ x ‘Tiger’) by Jim Pierce

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Queensland Bottle Tree

An outstanding and rarely seen selection of this fine species

it is margined with cream and pink with olive green central striping and a light coating of scurf making the leaves dull in appearance

Aechmea skotakii CM A colorful hybrid of (‘Milagro’An apparent new species of what would have been a Streptocalyx, originally found by Chester Skotak in the Condor Mountains of Ecuador. As far as we are aware, the name skotakii for this species is still provisional. A large growing plant with an open rosette of rather spiny two inch wide leaves. The foliage is green, turning reddish with maturity. The bloom is a wide, slightly raised, disk like head, surrounded by flaming red bracts. We collected a