vase shaped plant with broad purple leaves banded in silver below
A single ‘Tarantello‘ is a presence of its own and doesn’t need to be in a clump to have that kind of gravity that only so few plants have
nothing short of spectacular
the leaves are rather succulent and the inflorescence inflated
Deep blue flowers are long and tubular
Aechmea leonard-kentiana X NEOMEA vase shaped plant with broadA large species from Bahia, Brazil that may superficially resemble a Hohnebergia and has close relatives in Aechmea, Portea and the now discontinued Streptocalyx. Long, strappy leaves in a full, open, 36 inch, somewhat bulbous based rosette, have serrate spines and a grey scurf. The inflorescence is on a tall scape with short , well spaced tripinnate branches forming a cylindrical, conical head. Scape bracts are green, and flowers dense and tiny with