| Brazilian Vaseplant |
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| File size | 651089 |
| Original date | 7/9/05 11:04 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/98s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Aechmea distichantha Family: Bromeliaceae (Pineapple family)
Brazilian vaseplant is a funnel-shaped bromeliad with an erect rosette of
arching strap-shaped leaves an inch wide and up to 3 ft long. The
leaves are dull green with pointed tips and small brown spines along the
margins. The inflorescence is a longish cluster of spreading spikes,
each with several blue, white or purple flowers about an inch long and
subtended by showy pink bracts. The stem of the inflorescence is white-wooly
and holds the flower cluster several inches above the center of the rosette.
Bromeliads flower only once, and then they die, but the inflorescence may last
for several weeks. The plant produces a white-wooly cylindrical
berry-like fleshy fruit that persists for a few more weeks. Like most
bromeliads, Brazilian vaseplant produces offsets that replace the parent
plant vegetatively.
| Identification credit: Shaista Ahmad | Photographed in cultivation in Manipur. |
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